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A GREEK MARBLE FEMALE HEAD
Lot 213

A GREEK MARBLE FEMALE HEAD

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA SECOND HALF OF 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Closed14 April 2011

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GBP 37,250

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A GREEK MARBLE FEMALE HEAD
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA SECOND HALF OF 5TH CENTURY B.C.
With finely carved facial features, hair gathered in a net or sakkos, wearing a himation over the back of her head, mounted
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high

New York art market, early 1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland.

Specialist note

This marble head in Attic style may well have come from a votive or funerary monument carved in very high relief with some parts of the figures being carved in the round.