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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A WOMAN
Lot 96PROPERTY FROM AN OREGON PRIVATE COLLECTION

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A WOMAN

FLAVIAN PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Closed12 April 2022

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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A WOMAN
FLAVIAN PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) high

Documented in a photograph sent from Lugwig Pollak (1868-1943) to Salomon Reinach (1858-1932), preserved in the Fonds Reinach, Bibliothèque de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris.
Private Collection, France.
A French Private Collector; Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1995, lot 167.
Private Collection, U.K., acquired from the above.
The Stanford Place Collection of Antiquities, Christie's, London, 26 April 2006, lot 47.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVIII, 2007, no. 21).
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 6 October 2011, lot 130.

Specialist note

Depicting a mature woman, the sitter is portraited with signs of age, including heavy-lidded eyes, sunken cheeks and prominent naso-labial folds. Her elaborate coiffure of center-parted wavy hair is pulled back, braided and then coiled into a bun at the back of her head. This hairstyle confirms the Flavian date for this portrait. For a similar example, see the portrait in Copenhagen at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, no. 69 in F. Johansen, Katalog Romerske Portrætter II.