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A Roman Marble Portrait Head of Tiberius, 2nd quarter of the 1st Century A.D.
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- A Roman Marble Portrait Head of Tiberius
- marble
- Height 18.4 cm.
turned slightly to his left, his hair radiating from the crown and falling in crescentic curls over the forehead and before the ears, once mounted askew on a marble socle of oval section, possibly ancient; no restorations.
Provenance
Belgian private collection, acquired in Rome in the 1970s
Belgian private collection, by descent from the above (Sotheby’s, New York, December 12th, 2014, no. 39, illus.)
acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Belgian private collection, by descent from the above (Sotheby’s, New York, December 12th, 2014, no. 39, illus.)
acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Catalogue Note
This under-lifesize portrait of emperor Tiberius (reigned A.D. 14–37 A.D.) belongs to the same portrait type as a lifesize head in the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta, inv. no. 2003.55.1: D. Hertel, Die Bildnisse des Tiberius, Das römische Herrscherbild, vol. I.3, 2013, p. 226f., no. 223, pl. 140 (http://carlos.emory.edu/content/tiberius).