Currently not on view
Seated Mercury,
1st century CE
Roman
y1949-131
Information
Title
Seated Mercury
Dates
1st century CE
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
21.0 x 9.9 x 10.6 cm (8 1/4 x 3 7/8 x 4 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
y1949-131
Period
Materials
Purchased by the Museum (Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection) in 1949 from an unknown source.
- "Recent accessions", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 8, no. 2 (1949): p. 11., p. 12
- "Recent Acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 8, no. 2 (1949): 11–12., p. 12
- Frances Follins Jones, "A bronze statuette of Mercury", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 11, no. 2 (1952): p. 34-38., fig. 1, p. 6 (illus.)
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The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)
, cat. no. 3 - The Greco-Roman world as seen in their crafts: [exhibition, Saint Peter's College Art Gallery April 3 to May 1], (Jersey City, NJ: Saint Peter's College Art Gallery, 1974)., cat. no. 37
- Ancient Art: The Development of the Greek and Roman Figural and Animal Styles, (New Brunswick, NJ: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1981), p. 20-21
- Susan H. Auth, Artisans of ancient Rome: production into art: a checklist and bibliography: the Newark Museum, September 11, 1997 through December 1998, (Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1997).
