A Roman Marble Portrait Statue of a Lady, the body 2nd Century A.D., the head circa A.D. 80-100

standing with her weight on the left leg, and wearing a long chiton and enveloping himation, and holding the folds with her right hand to her chest, the head not belonging, her hair framing the forehead in a broad mass of drilled curls with two echeloned rows of rectangular ornaments, drawn back behind the ears and up from the nape of the neck into a turban of coiled braids behind the crown; restored are the neck, nose, and parts of plinth.

Anderson Galleries, New York, Catalogue of an Unique Collection of Greek and Roman Marbles, Important Gothic Sculptures, Primitive Paintings, Ceramics, Tapestries and Ancient Rugs, including Two Monumental Altars and a Greek Iconostas coming from Historical Collections and gathered in England, France, Austria, Italy and the Levant by a Well-known European Connoisseur during Many Years of Collecting, January 26th-29th, 1921, no. 799, illus.
Frederick E. Guest (1875-1937) and Amy Phipps Guest (1876?-1959), Villa Artemis, Palm Beach
American private collection, Palm Beach, Florida (Sotheby’s, New York, December 6th, 2006, no. 55, illus.)

Franklin P. Johnson, Lysippos, Durham, North Carolina, 1927, p. 159, no. 23
Hans-Joachim Kruse, Römische weibliche Gewandstatuen des 2. Jhs. n. Chr., Göttingen, 1975, p. 297, no. 125
Annetta Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses, Mainz, 2004, p. 245, no. 69

As described. front corners of base restored. Proper right and drapery folds formerly restored. Neck modern. Head ancient with restored nose. Rims of ears chipped and abraded. Section of beehive coiffure missing on top, as well as a smaller section above proper right ear. Surface slightly weathered overall, and heavily weathered on proper right arm.
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The statue is the rare example of an enlarged copy of the Small Herculaneum Woman (the eponymous copy: K. Knoll and C. Vorster, eds., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Katalog der antiken Bildwerke, vol. 3, 2013, pp. 176ff., no. 34). The only other enlarged copy is in Thessaloniki: Kruse (op. cit.) p. 321f., no. C42; G. Despinis, et al., eds., Katalogos glyptōn tou Archaiologikou Mouseiou Thessalonikēs, vol. 2, 2003, pp. 213ff., no. 305, figs. 963ff.

The head is a portrait of the late Flavian period; cf. the head of a portrait statue in Copenhagen: F. Johansen, Catalogue Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Roman Portraits, vol. 2, 1995, pp. 50ff., no. 14. For the rectangular ornaments cf. a portrait head in Berlin: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/52345.