JULIO-CLAUDIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE FRAGMENTARY FEMALE HEAD
JULIO-CLAUDIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
10 1⁄2 in. (26.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva; thence by descent to the present owner.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Despite the high quality of the carving, this female portrait appears to have been left unfinished, with only one ear being partially carved. The oval shape of the face and the sharply delineated eyelids are consistent with many other portraits of this period and the hairstyle is typical of the Tiberian era, cf. F. Johansen, Roman Portraits I, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1994, pp. 188-189, no 82.

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