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A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A GIRL, SEVERAN, EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D., ON 17TH/18TH CENTURY SHOULDERS

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July 2, 04:42 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT HEAD OF A GIRL, SEVERAN, EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D., ON 17TH/18TH CENTURY SHOUL🌳DERS


her eyes with incised irises and drilled pupils, her right earlobe pierced, her hair drawn back in rows of wavy tresses and gathered in an oval plait on the back; no restorations.

Height incl. sh♕oulders 50 cm.; height of head 19 cm.

European private c🏅ollection, circa 18th Century (based on res🔯toration techniques)

Willy Lefèvre, Kortrijk, Belgium

by descent to the present owner

For the form of the plait on the back cf. Severan portrait heads in Rome (K. Fittschen and P. Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen, vol. 3, 1983, p. 103f., nos. 152-153, pl. 180), and Berlin (//arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/2203; cf. K. Fittschen, Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, vol. 270, 2018, p. 114).