Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Lot 56
  • 56

A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Man, circa early 3rd Century A.D.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Man
  • marble
  • Height 28 cm.
turned slightly to his right, with short beard and moustache and eyes with incised irises, his hair spiralling in thick strands from the crown and falling low over the forehead, temples, and nape of the neck; no restorations.

Provenance

the stage set and costume designer José Luis Viñas, Madrid, acquired in the 1970s or earlier

Catalogue Note

Cf. a portrait head from the Miller Collection: R. Brilliant, The Miller Collection of Roman Sculpture, 2004, p. 66f., no. 24.