Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a Private Collection, Hawaii
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Auction Closed
December 3, 05:06 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Hawaii
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
turned to his left, the youthful face with full bow-shaped lips and deep-set eyes, his short hair surmounted by a petasos, the base of the neck originally carved for insertion; no restorations, underside of neck carved flat in modern times.
Height 31 cm; height of face 14 cm.
Ernest (d. 1964) and Charlotte Goldsmith, New York
Stephen E. Goldsmith (1944-2009), Wailuku, Hawaii, by descent from the above
received as a gift from the above by the present owner
The rendering of the hair and facial features is comparable to Greek statuary types of the mid 5th Century B.C., especially the Ince-Riccardi type (cf. S. Kansteiner, Pseudoantike Skulptur II, 2017, p. 37). The petasos is likely to be a feature added by the sculptor of the Roman Imperial era.
The jewelry designer Ernest Goldsmith emigrated to the United States in 1941. Before WWII he had owned a well-known jewelry store in Cologne.