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LOT 0354
Estimate
GBP (£) 3,000 - 5,000
EUR (€) 3,510 - 5,840
USD ($) 3,810 - 6,350
ROMAN MARBLE KOUROS TYPE HEAD
4TH CENTURY AD
11" (6 kg, 28cm including stand).
4TH CENTURY AD
11" (6 kg, 28cm including stand).
A carved late Roman copy of a Greek kouros bust with broad nose and lentoid eyes, hair in curls to the brow and falling straight to the shoulders from behind the ears; mounted on a custom-made stand.
PROVENANCE:
From an important North London collection formed before 1980.
LITERATURE:
Cf. similar figures published in Richter, G.M.A. Korai: Archaic Greek Maidens, London, 1968 figs. 289, 301.
