CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A MAN
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Provenance

Professor Jens Adolf Jerichau (1816-1883), Copenhagen.
The Jerichau Collection; C. de Bretteville, Copenhagen, 5 May 1884, lot 39.
Private collection, Germany.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 12 April 2000, lot 160.
Private collection, California.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 4 June 2015, lot 87.
UAE private collection, acquired from the above sale.

Exhibited

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Antike kunst i dansk privateje, 16 May-31 August 1974.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
J. Christiansen, Antike kunst i dansk privateje (exhibition cat.), Copenhagen, 1974, p. 51, pl. 320.

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