Lot 229
229
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF THE GODDESS APHRODITE, delicately modelled, wearing a fillet in her curling hair which is parted in the middle and dressed in a knot above and twisted into a chignon behind, her head tilted slightly to her right, good condition at front and back, slight chip to nose, mounted on mottled black stone stand, 2nd Century A.D., Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th Century B.C 10in. (25.4cm.) high

Details
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF THE GODDESS APHRODITE, delicately modelled, wearing a fillet in her curling hair which is parted in the middle and dressed in a knot above and twisted into a chignon behind, her head tilted slightly to her right, good condition at front and back, slight chip to nose, mounted on mottled black stone stand, 2nd Century A.D., Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th Century B.C 10in. (25.4cm.) high
Provenance
Hagop Kevorkian collection
American Art Galleries, New York, 20-21 January 1928, lot 377

Lot Essay

This head was originally sold as being Greek, 4th Century B.C., "a great work of the Praxitelean School", compared with "the Cnidian Aphrodite of the Vatican and the head in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." A copy of the catalogue entry and Dr. Tonks' letter from Vassar College, dated 19 December, 1927, accompanies this lot

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