Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Various Properties
A Hellenistic Marble Portrait Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, 3rd/2nd Century B.C.
Lot Closed
July 7, 03:34 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Various Properties
A Hellenistic Marble Portrait Head of a Ptolemaic Queen
3rd/2nd Century B.C.
turned slightly to her left, her centrally parted hair freely worked, the neck carved for insertion into a statue.
Height 23.5 cm.
European private collection, circa 18th Century (based on restoration techniques)
private collection, Paris, acquired on the Paris art market in the 1980s (Sotheby's, London, November 29th, 2017, no. 30, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
This under-life-size head is likely to represent a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, such as Queen Arsinoe III, for instance; cf. Yale University Art Gallery, inv. 1998.23.10 (http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/74401) and Sotheby's, New York, December 12th-13th, 1991, no. 71.