A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Woman, late 2nd Century A.D.

turned to her right, her eyes with incised irises and drilled circular pupils, the eyebrows incised, her centrally-parted hair swept up in wavy locks above the forehead leaving the ears bare, merging into a melon coiffure, and once bound in a chignon; restored are the back of the head incl. chignon, and part of the chin, nose added in plaster, part of the hair above right ear reworked, neck prepared for mounting on a statue or bust.

European private collection, circa 18th Century (based on restoration techniques)
Los Angeles private collection, acquired in the 1980s
I. M. Chait Gallery/Auctioneers, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Sale IFA 1511, November 22nd, 2015, no. 334

As described, rim of both ears chipped, small patch of plaster restoration on bridge of nose as well as on upper lip, minor nicks and abrasions, surface slightly repolished
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Cf. a portrait in Florence (C. Saletti, I ritratti antoniniani di Palazzo Pitti, 1974, pp. 54ff., pl. 23f.), datable in the late Antonine period.