Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Girl, circa 2nd/3rd century A.D.

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July 5, 01:29 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Roman Marble Portrait Head of a Girl

circa 2nd/3rd century A.D.


with short, roughly incised hair, and an "Isis-lock" falling over the nape of neck, and wearing a broad, chequered band on the crown terminating over the forehead in a row of three jewels; no restorations.

Height 18.4 cm.

Sotheby's, London, May 23rd, 1988, no. 240, illus. (https://arachne.dainst.org/entity/1103766)

Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, by 1988

François Antonovich, Paris, by 1996

Rosebery's, London, April 1st, 2022, no. 68, illus., as a "Gandhara stucco head of a youth"

acquired by the present owner at the above sale


Published:

Christie's, London, April 25th, 2001, no. 83, illus.

Royal-Athena Galleries, New York and Beverly Hills, The Age of Cleopatra. The Art of Late Dynastic and Graeco-Roman Egypt [Art of the Ancient World, vol. 5, part 2], October 1988, no. 4, illus.

François Antonovich, Les métamorphoses divines d'Alexandre le Grand, 1996, pp. 206 and 395-396

For other Roman portraits of children with similar head ornament, perhaps a sign that the sitter had been initiated into a specific religious cult, see V. v. Gonzenbach, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, vol. 93, 1969, pp. 885ff. Also see K. Fittschen and P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen, vol. 4, 2014, p. 168, no. 194, pl. 171, and Replica Shoes 's, London, 2016, no. 59 (https://fashionluxury.com.cn/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/ancient-marbles-classical-sculpture-art-l16260/lot.59.html).

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