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Lot 87

A Roman marble portrait head fragment

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

£7,000 - £9,000

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A Roman marble portrait head fragment
Circa late 3rd-early 4th Century A.D.
Carved veristically, the mature male with short hair and beard, his face deeply lined with furrowed brow and wrinkles emanating from the edges of his heavy-rimmed articulated eyes, with drilled inner canthi, 24cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, Amsterdam, formed 1950s-1960s; and thence by descent to 2018.

For another early 4th Century male portrait with similarly furrowed brow and crow's feet, see F. Johansen, Roman Portraits III, NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1995, p. 184, no. 81.

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