拍品 187
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A MARBLE HEAD OF SAPPHO

AFTER THE ANTIQUE

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A MARBLE HEAD OF SAPPHO
AFTER THE ANTIQUE
With idealized face, her curling hair elaborately dressed with a fillet which runs over her forehead and the crown of her head, pulling her wavy locks together at the back, repaired, mounted
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

拍品專文

This is based on a head of Sappho, the poetess from Lesbos, which was found at Herculaneum in 1753; copies of the head were popular and bronze versions featured in the Neapolitan Chiurazzi catalogues of the late Nineteenth Century. This so-called "Sappho-type" head which is found in other Roman versions was inspired by a Greek original of 5th Century B.C.