Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and Christiane Bess♓e
A South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Man, Qataban, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
Auction Closed
December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and C♊hristiane Besse
A South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Man, Qataban
3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
with prominent chin, full lips, thin incised moustache💧, eyes recessed for inlay and outlined in bronze, grooved eyebrows, and naturalistically rendered ears.
Height 18 cm.
Antoܫnin 🍌Besse (1927-2016) and Christiane Besse (1928-2021), Paris, acquired in Yemen in the 1960s
by descent to the present owner
Published
Yémen, Au pays de la reine de Saba (catalogue of the exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paꦯris, Oct. 25th, 1997, to Feb. 28th, 1998), Paris, 1997,💝 p. 99
Sabina Antonini, La statuaria sudarabica in pietra (Repertorio iconograph✱ico sudarabico, ♛I), Paris and Rome, 2001, p. 91, C51, pl. 44
For a related example see Sotheby's, New York, Decembe🎉r 10th, 1999, no. 14.