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LOT 0169
Roman Marble Relief of a Woman
1ST CENTURY B.C.
6 1/4 in. (1.7 kg, 16 cm).
Featuring a female face shown in three-quarter view with short locks framing her face, full lips and wide nose.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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