Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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A Monumental Fragmentary Head of a Queen or Goddess, circa 3rd/2nd Century B.C.

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Live auction begins on:

December 3, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 GBP

Bid

24,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

with parted lips, her wavy hair parted in the centre, the back probably once completed in another material.

 

Height 60 cm.

Elie Borowski (1913-2003), Basel and Jerusalem

acquired by the present owner from the above in 1996

Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, inv. no. L.2010.03.01, from 2010 to 2024

Related over-lifesize portraits of Ptolemaic queens include a head in Kassel identified as Berenike II (https://datenbank.museum-kassel.de/26317/), and a head in a Swiss private collection identified as Arsinoe II (M. Prange, Athenische Mitteilungen, vol. 105, 1990, p. 199, pl. 40f.).


The present lot used to rest on an old makeshift wood mount covered in old labels. It has since then been discarded and no visual record was kept of it.

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