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Lot 135*

A Roman marble head of a Venus

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Roman marble head of a Venus
Circa 1st Century A.D.
With lidded almond-shaped eyes set beneath arching brows, and full, pert lips, her wavy centrally-parted hair drawn back from her oval face and arranged in a top-knot, 10cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, Massachusetts, gifted from a friend who acquired the piece at a Phillips auction in London prior to 2001; and thence by descent to the present owner.

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