Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from the Collection of Peter and Mary Blomberg, Stockholm

A Hellenistic Marble Figure of a Peplophoros, circa 2nd Century B.C.

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

standing with the weight on her right leg, and wearing a peplos with overfold belted under the breast and mantle falling from the back, the back roughly worked, the head and arms carved separately in antiquity.

 

Height 51 cm.

New York private collection, mid-1970s

Max Willborg (1933-2011), Stockholm, acquired in the early to mid 1980s

acquired by the present owner from the above


Published

Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, London, Enduring Legacy: Ancient Art from the Egyptians to the Romans, 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D., 2024, no. 50, illus.

For two closely related figures, both iconographically and stylistically, see G. Gualandi, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene, vol. 54, 1976, p. 80f., no. 31, fig. 55, and V. Machaira, Ellēnistika glypta tēs Rhodou, vol. 1, 2011, p. 71f., no. 38, pl. 51f. (both from Rhodes).

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