Property from a Private Collection
A Roman Marble Janiform Herm of a Goddess, circa 2nd Century A.D.
Lot Closed
July 6, 01:15 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
A Roman Marble Janiform Herm of a Goddess
circa 2nd Century A.D.
both heads veiled and wearing a laurel wreath, one with centrally parted, curly hair, the other with a fillet passing over the forehead; no restorations.
Height 45 cm.
Soth෴eby🎃's, London, December 8th-9th, 1986, no 243, illus.
Published
Sotheby's, London,🥃 December 10th-11th, 1984, no. 270, illus.
The herm belongs to a series, of which three other identical examples are known: one in the Musei Capitolini (), another in the Villa Medici (A. Cecchi, C. Gasparri, Le collezioni del cardinale Ferdinando, La Villa Médicis, vol. 4, 2009, p. 354, no. 602.56), a third, 🌱sawn apart in modern times, in the Palazzo Rospigliosi:
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