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Culture: Roman.
Date: 1st - 2nd Century A.D.
Condition: Superb, intact, mounted on a custom display stand.
Provenance: EX: German Private collection, EX: New York City art market.
Measurements: 4.5 inches high, (11 cms).
Featuring a head of Aphrodite with a serene expression, her wavy hair centrally-parted and dressed in a diadem, her elaborate curls drawn back. The wide set eyes beneath a softly curving brow line. This head is of Venus de Medici type,after a Hellenistic marble statue of the goddess in the Uffizi museum, Florence.
Cf: M. Bieber, The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, New York, 1955, p.20, fig. 28.
Antiquities
Ancient Roman
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