Property from an English Private Collection
A Roman Marble Janiform Herm of Dionysos or Apollo, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Auction Closed
July 4, 03:04 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Property from an English Private Collection
A Roman Marble Janiform Herm of Dionysos or Apollo
circa 2nd Century A.D.
each head with parted lips and drilled inner eye corners, the luxuriant hair parted in the center, surmounted by a wreath of leaves, and falling in voluminous curls over the ears.
Height 25.5 cm.
Spink & Son, London
acquired by the present owner from the above in the early 1990s
acquired by the present owner from the above in the early 1990s
A janiform herm closely related in both style and workmanship is in Warsaw: T. Mikocki, Les sculptures mythologiques et décoratives dans les collections polonaises, vol. 2, 1999, p. 81f., no. 67, pl. 56f.
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