Live Auction 7336The Stanford Place Collection of Antiquities
AN EAST GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A KORE
Lot 16

AN EAST GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A KORE

ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 550-530 B.C.

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GBP 102,000

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AN EAST GREEK MARBLE HEAD OF A KORE
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 550-530 B.C.
Delicately modelled, her face with two fine arcs faintly engraved above her almond-shaped eyes to indicate her eyelids, an epiblema (mantle) worn over her hair through which the contours of her head and ears are apparent, mounted
3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high

Formerly in the collection of Professor Hans and Mrs Marie-Louise Erlenmeyer, Basel, acquired between 1943 and the early 1960s.

Specialist note

This head, embodying the essence of East Greek Archaic sculpture, is of a type well known from the sculptures of the great archaic temples of East Greece. For a particularly close parallel, cf. the kore head in Berlin (Berlin 1631) from the temple of Athena at Miletus, who wears her epiblema in identical fashion. The epiblema is the larger, virtually foldless mantle which in East Greece was worn to cover only the back and sides and sometimes also the hair.

This lot is accompanied by a certificate from The Art Loss Register.