A GRAECO-ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF A DRAPED FEMALE

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A GRAECO-ROMAN MARBLE STATUE OF A DRAPED FEMALE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.
Wearing chiton and himation draped over her left shoulder and held in place by her left hand which falls down over her hips, the weight on her left leg, her right knee bent forwards, repaired above the knees, mounted, on tall green marble plinth
Statue 18 in. (45.7 cm.) high; plinth 44 in. (112 cm.) high

Provenance

Consul General Karl Bergsten (d. 1953); acquired in Cairo, 1930.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
K. Asplund (ed.), Collection de Peintures et de Sculptures appartenant à M. le Consul Général et à Madame Carl Bergsten, Vol. II, Stockholm, 1943, cat. no. 23.

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