White marble
1st–3rd century AD
Height 5 1/8"
Provenance: English trade
This carved white marble head depicts a youthful female with naturalistic facial features and a sculptured hairstyle rendered in low relief, with strands drawn back and secured at the crown. The head was originally part of a larger figure and retains fine surface detail across the face, including modeled brows, lidded eyes, and a composed expression consistent with Roman idealized portraiture of the period.
Roman marble heads detached from full figures circulated widely in the European trade from the Renaissance onward, and examples of this type appear regularly in English collections formed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The white marble and the handling of the hair and facial planes are consistent with workshop production of the Imperial period, during which idealized female portraiture was produced across the Roman world for both public and private contexts.
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White marble
1st–3rd century AD
Height 5 1/8"
Provenance: English trade
This carved white marble head depicts a youthful female with naturalistic facial features and a sculptured hairstyle rendered in low relief, with strands drawn back and secured at the crown. The head was originally part of a larger figure and retains fine surface detail across the face, including modeled brows, lidded eyes, and a composed expression consistent with Roman idealized portraiture of the period.
Roman marble heads detached from full figures circulated widely in the European trade from the Renaissance onward, and examples of this type appear regularly in English collections formed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The white marble and the handling of the hair and facial planes are consistent with workshop production of the Imperial period, during which idealized female portraiture was produced across the Roman world for both public and private contexts.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
