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CIRCA MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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A ROMAN MARBLE FEMALE HEAD
CIRCA MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Perhaps a goddess or an idealizing portrait, with youthful features, her almond-shaped lidded eyes articulated, the inner canthi drilled, her small bow-shaped mouth drilled at the corners, the filtrum indicated, her deeply-drilled wavy hair center parted, with the sides rolled back and tied into a chignon, two wisps falling onto her forehead, crowned with a crescentic diadem
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
CIRCA MID 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Perhaps a goddess or an idealizing portrait, with youthful features, her almond-shaped lidded eyes articulated, the inner canthi drilled, her small bow-shaped mouth drilled at the corners, the filtrum indicated, her deeply-drilled wavy hair center parted, with the sides rolled back and tied into a chignon, two wisps falling onto her forehead, crowned with a crescentic diadem
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Chevalier Collection, Bodensee, Germany, acquired in Izmir, 1963.
with Richard Philp Fine Art, London, 2004.
with Richard Philp Fine Art, London, 2004.
Literature
Antiken aus Rheinischen Privatbesitz, Bonn, 1973, no. 362, pl. 166 (as a portrait of Lucilla).
Exhibited
Bonn, Rheinischen Landesmuseum, "Antiken aus Rheinischen Privatbesitz," 9 November 1973 - January 1974.