A Roman limestone head of Apollo
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Depicted wearing a laurel wreath, the wavy hair combed straight from the crown of the head, centrally-parted and drawn back into a chignon at the base of the head, two tresses falling to the sides, now missing, the browline defined, the large and wide-set eyes with incised irises and pierced pupils, the lips full, 7½in (19cm) high, some remnants of polychrome paint, some restoration, mounted on a marble veneer base
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Depicted wearing a laurel wreath, the wavy hair combed straight from the crown of the head, centrally-parted and drawn back into a chignon at the base of the head, two tresses falling to the sides, now missing, the browline defined, the large and wide-set eyes with incised irises and pierced pupils, the lips full, 7½in (19cm) high, some remnants of polychrome paint, some restoration, mounted on a marble veneer base
Sold for
£26,400
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Property of a private English lady, acquired in 1990 at Sotheby's London.
Published:
Sotheby's, London, Antiquities, Tuesday, 10 July 1990, lot 269.
Literature:
For a similarly wreathed Apollo of the 2nd Century A.D., cf. Apollo Musagetes, Museo Pio-Clementino, The Vatican Museums, Rome: V. Farinella, Vatican Museums. Classical Art, (Florence, 1985), p.34, fig. 16
Category: Antiquities
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