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LOT 1809
Post Medieval Marble Head of a Youth
20TH CENTURY A.D.
9 1/2 in. (6.26 kg total, 24 cm high including stand).
Carved naturalistically in the round with cropped hair, wearing a taenia headband seemingly featuring Greek key motif; possibly representing a deity, a muse or even a female satyr; mounted on a carved stone base.
Provenance
with Arts D'Orient, Artcurial, Paris, 19 May 2014, no.138.
English private collection.
with Timeline Auctions, 21 February 2023, no.407.
Acquired from the above.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1992.11.66, for a comparable sculpture of Roman date, itself modelled on a Greek original; see also accession number 24.97.90, for a 3rd-2nd century B.C. stone head with stylistic similarities.
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