A Roman marble female portrait bust
Eastern Empire, circa 2nd Century A.D.
With an aquiline nose, shapely lips and small rounded chin, her large heavy lidded eyes set beneath a defined brow, her wavy hair centrally parted, wearing earrings and a tunic, the back roughly hewn, probably from a funerary relief, 14½in (36.8cm) high
Eastern Empire, circa 2nd Century A.D.
With an aquiline nose, shapely lips and small rounded chin, her large heavy lidded eyes set beneath a defined brow, her wavy hair centrally parted, wearing earrings and a tunic, the back roughly hewn, probably from a funerary relief, 14½in (36.8cm) high
Estimate:
£8,000 - 12,000
US$ 13,000 - 19,000
€9,300 - 14,000
US$ 13,000 - 19,000
€9,300 - 14,000
Footnotes
- Provenance:
English private collection.
Bonhams London, 29 Apr 2009, lot 47.
Private collection formed in the early 1980s.
Literature:
For a similar bust, cf. S. Walker & M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, London, 1997, fig 272, p.197-8.
Category: Antiquities
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