Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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Property from the Collection of Axel Vervoordt

A Marble Relief Head of a Youth, Eastern Roman Empire, circa 3rd Century A.D.

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July 5, 12:38 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of Axel Vervoordt

A Marble Relief Head of a Youth

Eastern Roman Empire, circa 3rd Century A.D.


probably from a sarcophagus, turned to his left, with parted lips and long centrally parted hair; no restorations.

11.5 by 16.5 cm.

Ambassador George Crews McGhee (1912-2005), Middleburg, Virginia, acquired prior to 1954

American private collection (Sotheby’s, New York, December 8th, 2011, no. 56, illus.)

Galerie Cybèle, Paris

acquired in 2014


PUBLISHED

George Hanfmann et al., Ancient Art in American Private Collections, A Loan Exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, 1954, p. 29, no. 177, pl. 50 (as "found in Iran")

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