A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF DIONYSOS

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF DIONYSOS
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
In archaizing style, with the hair falling in two tendrils over his shoulder and arranged in three rows of corkscrew curls on the forehead, and on the nape of the neck, dressed with a twisted fillet tied at the back with full curling forked beard and moustache, the curled tips drilled, lidded eyes
10½ in. (26.7 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

The origin of this form of archaising Dinonysos heads can be traced to a 5th Century B.C. Greek original by Alkamenes. Cf. G.M.A. Richter, The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, Yale, 1970, p. 182, fig. 673.

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