Larger Than Life-Size Hellenistic Style Female Marble Head

LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER

19 1/4 in. (32.3 kg total, 49 cm high including stand).

Modelled in the round with heavy brow extending to a slightly aquiline nose, deep-set lentoid eyes above high cheekbones, a small mouth with lips slightly parted; the hair combed radially and the outer band parted centrally and gathered at the nape of the neck in a chignon; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Acquired prior to 1952.
Hauser family collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
French collection Madam X, acquired from the above 1984.
UK private collection, 1997.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11984-206396.

Literature

Some details of the execution of the bust recall Hellenistic forms in Roman art, such as the marble head in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.23.160.5.

CONDITION

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LOT 1453