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A Roman marble male portrait head image 1
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Lot 84

A Roman marble male portrait head

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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A Roman marble male portrait head
Circa late 2nd Century A.D.
With drilled thick curly hair covering the tops of the ears, the full beard and moustache neatly trimmed, with large expressive lidded eyes below arched brows, the back roughly carved, 29cm high

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Provenance:
Ernest Brummer (1891-1964) collection, acquired in 1914.
The Ernest Brummer Collection, Vol. II; Spink & Son and Galerie Koller, Zurich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 650.
Private collection, London.

For similar, see Roman Portraits II, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1995, p. 144, no. 56; the bulging eyes, heavy upper lids and treatment of the beard are particularly alike, and it is noted that a close resemblance to the Emperor Hadrian was sought in the rendering.

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