Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from a German Private Collection

An Attic Marble Relief Head of a Youth, 4th Century B.C.

Lot Closed

July 7, 03:37 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a German Private Collection

An Attic Marble Relief Head of a Youth

4th Century B.C.


probably from a funerary stele, facing left, with deep-set eyes, his wavy hair radiating from the crown, bound in a fillet, and falling over the nape of the neck, a curl escaping before the fragmentary ear; no restorations.

Height 24.5 cm.

Prof. Dieter Wyss (1923-1994), Würzburg, acquired in Switzerland in the late 1970s

by descent to the present owner


Published

K.-E. Bühler and H. Weiß, Kommunikation und Perspektivität: Beiträge zur Anthropologie aus Medizin und Geisteswissenschaften, Würzburg, 1985, pp. 371-372

Sotheby's, London, July 5th, 2022, no. 170, illus.

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