A Roman marble bust of an Emperor
Antonine, mid-2nd Century A.D.
Probably for Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius, wearing a cuirass over a tunic, the paludamentum fastened at his right shoulder with a circular brooch, the neck hollowed-out for insertion of an over-lifesize Imperial portrait head, carved with an integral plinth and socle, 25½in (65cm) high
Antonine, mid-2nd Century A.D.
Probably for Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius, wearing a cuirass over a tunic, the paludamentum fastened at his right shoulder with a circular brooch, the neck hollowed-out for insertion of an over-lifesize Imperial portrait head, carved with an integral plinth and socle, 25½in (65cm) high
Sold for
£76,800
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Natalia Timofejeff, Stockholm, 1979.
Sotheby's New York, 06 June 2006, lot 56.
Published:
Chaucer Fine Arts Inc., Rome. A Vision of Antiquity, catalogue of the exhibition, London, Summer 1980, no.54.
Literature:
For a similar Imperial bust wearing the cuirass and paludamentum, see Antoninus Pius, Museo Nazionale in Naples, inv. no. 6031; For a bust of Lucius Verus in The Louvre, Paris, cf. D. Kleiner, Roman Sculpture, New Haven, 1992, fig. 239; and fig. 237 for a bust of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Category: Antiquities
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