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Lot 143*

A Roman marble head of Venus

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

Sold for £8,812.50 inc. premium

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A Roman marble head of Venus
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Her wavy hair dressed with a diadem and centrally parted, drawn back from her face and arranged in a topknot, tendrils falling onto the back of her neck, with almond-shaped unarticulated lidded eyes, straight nose and rounded chin, the full lips slightly parted, 16.7cm high

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Provenance:
Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, Bern, acquired between 1968 and 1983.
Collection of Elsa Bloch-Diener: Antic Art and Pre Columbian Art; Stuker, Bern, 30 May 2018, lot 687.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired at the above.

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