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Auction archive: Lot number 180

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A PRIEST

Antiquities
3 Jun 2009
Estimate
US$100,000 - US$150,000
Price realised:
US$98,500
Auction archive: Lot number 180

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A PRIEST

Antiquities
3 Jun 2009
Estimate
US$100,000 - US$150,000
Price realised:
US$98,500
Beschreibung:

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A PRIEST
CIRCA EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A PRIEST CIRCA EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D. Lifesized, depicting a distinguished man of middle age, his head turned to his right, wearing a tunic with V-shaped folds at the front and a thick mantle draped over his left shoulder, with naturalistic physiognomy, including a creased forehead, a knitted brow, a blunt, rounded nose, deep-set unarticulated eyes with thick lids, shallow under-eye bags and pronounced naso-labial folds, his full beard and mustache closely cropped, his head bald but for thick wavy locks at the sides and a small tuft at the top of his forehead, crowned with a cylindrical diadem of overlapping leaves 16¾ in. (42.5 cm) high

Auction archive: Lot number 180
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
3 June 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A PRIEST
CIRCA EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.
A ROMAN MARBLE PORTRAIT BUST OF A PRIEST CIRCA EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D. Lifesized, depicting a distinguished man of middle age, his head turned to his right, wearing a tunic with V-shaped folds at the front and a thick mantle draped over his left shoulder, with naturalistic physiognomy, including a creased forehead, a knitted brow, a blunt, rounded nose, deep-set unarticulated eyes with thick lids, shallow under-eye bags and pronounced naso-labial folds, his full beard and mustache closely cropped, his head bald but for thick wavy locks at the sides and a small tuft at the top of his forehead, crowned with a cylindrical diadem of overlapping leaves 16¾ in. (42.5 cm) high

Auction archive: Lot number 180
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
3 June 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
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