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A Marble Portrait Head of a Philosopher, Roman Imperial, circa 2nd/3rd Century A.D.
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description
- A Marble Portrait Head of a Philosopher
- Marble
- Height of head 8 1/2 in. 21.6 cm.; height with shoulders 12 5/8 in. 32 cm; total height with socle 17 3/4 in. 45.1 cm.
his face with long moustache, full beard of voluted curls, and prominent eyes with incised irises and drilled pupils, his hair swept back over the ears and falling in three thick curls over the middle of the forehead; the nose and crown of the head restored, mounted on a later European draped marble bust and marble turned socle.
Provenance
European private collection(s), circa 18th Century (based on the restoration techniques)
Roditi family collection, Nice, acquired in the early 20th Century
French private collection, by descent (Azur Enchères, Cannes, March 29th, 2014, no. 245)
Roditi family collection, Nice, acquired in the early 20th Century
French private collection, by descent (Azur Enchères, Cannes, March 29th, 2014, no. 245)
Exhibited
Catalogue Note
For a related example see the bust inscribed "Hesiod" formerly at Wilton House (J. Scott, The Pleasures of Antiquity: British Collectors of Greece and Rome, New Haven, 2003, p. 42, fig. 23).