2nd-3rd century AD. A bronze statuette depicting a naked winged Cupid in a dynamic pose, right arm resting, left arm slightly in movement, legs apart, with the right leg extended in the dynamic movement and the left leg standing once over a high pedestal, a dove or a torch might originally have been held in his hands; head features with enough well-sculpted facial details and straggly hair covering his ears, a top-knot sits at the top of his head at the end of a pair of braids, possibly the statuette might have formed part of a larger group, probably centred around a statuette of Venus. See for similar specimens Stead, I., 'Excavations at Winterton Roman Villa and other Roman Sites in North Lincolnshire. Department of the Environment Archaeological Reports 9' in HMSO, 1976. 6.4 grams, 33mm (1 1/4"). From a North West London collection; previously acquired in the 1980s. [No Reserve]