A ROMAN ARCHAISTIC MARBLE HERM OF DIONYSOS

THE PROPERTY OF JAMES FENTON, ESQ.

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A ROMAN ARCHAISTIC MARBLE HERM OF DIONYSOS
1ST CENTURY A.D.
With full flowing beard, the wavy hair dressed in two long locks which fall on either side of the shoulders, the hair bunched in front of the ears and caught back under a fillet, with a broad, well-defined brow, the lips slightly parted, on an integral rectangular base with side sockets
19¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high

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END OF SALE

FORTHCOMING SALE DATES:
MARCH 1998 (Consignments to be received by mid-December)
SEPTEMBER 1998 (Consignments to be received by mid-July)

Lot Essay

Cf. F. Antonovich, Les métamorphoses divines d'Alexandre, Paris, 1997, pp. 72 and 339, no. 72; and C. C. Vermeule III et al, Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1977, p. 32, no. 41 for similar herms.

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