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Lot 87

A Greek marble face mask

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Greek marble face mask
Circa mid 5th Century B.C.
The face with soft features, the almond shaped eyes hollow for inlays, with full slightly-parted lips and dimpled chin, 20cm high

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Provenance:
with Alexander Global Art Ltd, acquired from Egami, Japan, 1974 (as stated on invoice: thought to be Professor Namio Egami).
Acquired by the present owner from the above 5 April 1988.

For a similarly proportioned face depicting Athena, also with hollow eyes for inlays, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 2007.293. See also the 'Kritios Boy' statue in the Acropolis Museum, Athens, inv. no. Ακρ. 698 for similar facial features in a statue.

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