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Lot 152

A Roman marble herm head of Dionysus

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

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Roman marble herm head of Dionysus
Circa early 2nd Century A.D.
Depicted with deep-set almond-shaped lidded eyes, a pert mouth, and long moustache and curling beard with coiled tips, wearing a deeply-drilled foliate wreath atop his centrally-parted wavy hair, 15.5cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, France, acquired in the 1980s.
Anonymous sale; Binoche & Giquello, Paris, 18 October 2017, lot 73.

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