CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A YOUNG WOMAN
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Possibly a muse or maenad, the head turned slightly to the left, her centrally parted wavy hair falling in two ringlets behind her ears and bound in a fillet at the back, with almond-shaped eyes, lips slightly parted with lidded eyes and small rounded chin

9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Charles Tavera (1894-1983) collection, France, acquired between 1925-1960; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

For similar coiffured youthful female cf. M. Moltesen, Catalogue Imperial Rome II Statues, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, p. 137, no. 33. For an earlier Hellenistic example cf. 'Marble Bust of a young girl with two ringlets of hair, 2nd Century B.C.', The British Museum, inv. no. 1922,0504.6.

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