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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
A ROMAN MARBLE MALE BUST
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN MARBLE MALE BUST
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Likely an emperor, depicted lifesized, wearing a baldric across his chest and over his right shoulder, with a paludamentum fastened on the left with a knobbed circular brooch, the musculature well defined, the back roughly finished, the neck hollowed for insertion of a now-missing, separately-made head
25 ¼ in. (64 cm.) wide
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Likely an emperor, depicted lifesized, wearing a baldric across his chest and over his right shoulder, with a paludamentum fastened on the left with a knobbed circular brooch, the musculature well defined, the back roughly finished, the neck hollowed for insertion of a now-missing, separately-made head
25 ¼ in. (64 cm.) wide
Provenance
with Michel Dumez-Onof, London.
Kalef Alaton, Los Angeles and Paris, acquired from the above.
The Estate of Kalef Alaton; Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 5 November 1990, lot 16.
Kalef Alaton, Los Angeles and Paris, acquired from the above.
The Estate of Kalef Alaton; Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, 5 November 1990, lot 16.