Master Sculpture from Four Millennia

A Roman Marble Herm of Hermes or Dionysos, circa 2nd Century A.D.

Auction Closed

July 4, 03:04 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Roman Marble Herm of Hermes or Dionysos

circa 2nd Century A.D.

with long beard and moustache of voluted locks, his hair arranged in two rows of corkscrew curls above the forehead and surmounted by a diadem, a strand of hair falling over the diadem on each side, two long wavy strands falling onto the shoulders; left front edge of herm shoulders restored.

Height 25.8 cm.

Please note that the correct provenance for lot 108 reads: "European private collection, 19th Century or earlier (based on restoration techniques and red marble base)/ French private collection, acquired prior to the 1970s/ Galerie Chenel, Paris/ David Ghezelbash Archéologie, Paris, acquired from the above/ acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013". The printed catalogue is incomplete.

European private collection, 19th Century or earlier (based on restoration techniques and red marble base)

French private collection, acquired prior to the 1970s

Galerie Chenel, Paris

David Ghezelbash Archéologie, Paris, acquired from the above

acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

Published

David Ghezelbash Archéologie, Paris, Catalogue no. 8, April 2013, no. 32, illus.

For two related herms in the Vatican see G. Lippold, Die Skulpturen des Vaticanischen Museums, vol. III.2, 1956, pp. 466ff., nos. 27 and 29, pls. 202f. (arachne.dainst.org/entity/1080161 and arachne.dainst.org/entity/1080150)