Lot 36
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A ROMAN MARBLE BEARDED MALE PORTRAIT HEAD
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A ROMAN MARBLE BEARDED MALE PORTRAIT HEAD

SECOND QUARTER OF 3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE BEARDED MALE PORTRAIT HEAD
SECOND QUARTER OF 3RD CENTURY A.D.
With closely cropped hair, wearing a tightly curled beard and drooping moustache, with softly modelled brow, the eyes with unarticulated pupils, on later marble bust and socled mount
10½ in. (26.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of The Countess of Sutherland, Dunrobin Castle, Scotland.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

For a similar head of the Emperor Maximinus (235-238 A.D.), cf. M. B. Comstock and C. C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1976, p. 238, no. 374; and for a head of the Emperor Trajan Decius, cf. M. Bergmann, Studien zum römischen Porträt des dritten Jahrhunderts, Bonn, 1977, pl. 6, nos. 3 and 4.

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