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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Details
AN ITALIAN MARBLE BUST OF PALLAS ATHENA
Early 19th century
The head, hair and helmet in lightly veined statuary marble, her shoulders breche violette marble carved with fish scale armour centred with the mask of Medusa, set among snakes and with larger coiled snakes around the collar, a pleated tunic beneath, on a later green and grey marble socle
74 cm (29 in) high
Early 19th century
The head, hair and helmet in lightly veined statuary marble, her shoulders breche violette marble carved with fish scale armour centred with the mask of Medusa, set among snakes and with larger coiled snakes around the collar, a pleated tunic beneath, on a later green and grey marble socle
74 cm (29 in) high
Provenance
Didier Aaron, London
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