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A Marble Portrait Head of a Man, Roman Imperial, probably Flavian, circa 3rd quarter of the 1st Century A.D.
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- A Marble Portrait Head of a Man
- Marble
- Height 7 1/4 in. 18.4 cm.; height with socle 11 3/4 in. 29.8 cm.
under-lifesize, turned slightly to his left, his hair radiating from the crown and falling in crescentic curls over the forehead and before the ears; mounted askew on a marble socle of oval section, possibly ancient.
Provenance
Belgian private collection, acquired in Rome in the 1970s
by descent to the present owner
by descent to the present owner