A Roman Marble Head of a Boy, circa 1st Century A.D.

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 USD

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Description

A Roman Marble Head of a Boy
Marble
Height 4 3/4 in. 12.1 cm.

perhaps Eros, turned to his right, his face with parted lips and eyes drilled at the inner corners, his hair bound in a diadem tied on top with a large bow(?) and falling in wavy curls over the forehead; remains of red pigment.

Provenance

Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), London
by descent to the present owner

Catalogue Note

Cf. G. Kaschnitz-Weinberg, Sculture der Magazzino del Museo Vaticano, Citta del Vaticano, 1936, no. 378, pl. LXXI.

For Sir Ronald Storrs see note to lot 21.