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Greek, Important marble head of a woman

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Greek, late 5th-early 4th century BC. A marble head of a woman, perhaps the goddess Aphrodite. The woman has an oval face with a smooth forehead, eyebrow ridges that extend onto her slender pointed nose, lidded recessed eyes, rounded chin with depression, an unsmiling mouth with full lower lip and drilled corners, and ears that are partially covered by her wavy hair. She wears a fillet around her centrally-parted tresses, part of which are rolled off her face and twisted together in back. Short traces fall along her neck below her ear lobes. The marble is heavily encrusted and pitted, rendering the treatment of her hair in back indistinct. Cf. a female head found in Athens now in the Staalichen Museen, Berlin, published in Carl Bluemel, "Die klassisch griechischen Skulpturen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin" (Berlin, 1966), no 108, pp. 90-91, pls. 158-160; another head from Athens is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. 01.8201, published in Mary B. Comstock & Cornelius C. Vermeule, "Sculpture in Stone: The Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston 1976), cat. No. 35, p. 28; another head in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (Los Angeles 2002), cat. No 228, p. 123. H: 8 1/8". On custom stand. Ex. New York City, 1950s. Choice.

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