Lot 32
  • 32

A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Roman Imperial, 3rd Century A.D.

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • A Marble Portrait Head of a Man
  • Marble
  • Height 6 1/4 in. 15.9 cm.
turned to his right, his face with short beard, high cheekbones, eyes with incised irises and drilled pupils, and incised eyebrows, his wavy hair falling in unruly locks over the high forehead.

Provenance

European art market, by 1963
B.C. Holland/Objects, Inc., Chicago, inv. no. CD-78-2-4
acquired from the above by the present owner on July 31st, 1978

Literature

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, neg. no. 1963.2063, shown on a 19th Century turned socle (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/224759)

Condition

Nose and proper left eyebrow restored as shown, note chips on proper left side of chin, hair on back of head is unworked, lobe of proper right ear missing. Surface mechanically cleaned leaving incrustations and root marks in crevices and interstices.
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