Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Woman, mid 2nd Century A.D.
Lot Closed
July 6, 01:33 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Woman
mid 2nd Century A.D.
turned slightly to her right, her eyes with incised irises and indented pupils, her hair pulled back and arranged into a braided coil over the crown of the head; section of back of coil restored, tip of nose formerly restored.
Height 27.5 cm.
Numifrance
private collection, acquired from the above on November 10th, 1983 (Drouot, Paris, July 3rd, 2020, no. 130, illus.)
acquired privately in the above sale by the present owner
For a closely related head found in Knossos, perhaps based on the same portrait type as the present head, see M. Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, Die römischen Porträts Kretas, CSIR Greece, vol. VI.1, 2002, p. 81, no. 55, pl. 58. A portrait with a similar hairstyle is in the Musei Capitolini: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/39296.