A small Greek marble head of a goddess
Hellenistic, circa 2nd-1st century BC
Height: 6.3 cm
Provenance:
With Charles Ede Limited, London, 1980
Stephenson Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, acquired from the above
Likely depicting the goddess Aphrodite, her smooth oval face with deeply set eyes, and slightly open lips, her hair centrally-parted with a diadem, and a chignon at neck.
The tilt of the head and the hair arrangement is seen in other Hellenistic Greek marble heads of Aphrodite. There is a very similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 24.97.88b: Richter, Gisela M. A. 1954. Catalogue of Greek Sculptures. no. 163, p. 89, pls. 116f–h, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
£ 3,000.00
