Property from an English Private Collection
A Roman Marble Portrait Statue of a Girl, circa 2nd Century A.D., restored as Demeter in the 17th/18th Century
Auction Closed
December 3, 04:39 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
standing with the weight on her left leg, and wearing a long soft chiton girdled at the waist and slipping from the left shoulder, and a himation draped over the right upper arm, across the body, and falling from the left lower arm, the left hand grasping the himation, her head (restored) with wavy hair surmounted by a wreath of poppies and ears of grain and bound in a chignon.
Height as restored 132 cm.
European private collection, 17th/18th Century (based on restoration techniques)
private collection, Ceylon House, 10 St Andrews Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire
by descent to the present owner
The statuary type of the figure is known in four other Roman copies: a statue with the portrait head of a Julio-Claudian princess from Baia (A. Alexandridis, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses, 2004, p. 168f., no. 133, pl. 28,1; plaster cast: arachne.dainst.org/entity/1221294), a statue with a Flavian portrait head in Rome (A. Giuliano, ed., Museo Nazionale Romano. Le sculture, vol. I.2, 1981, p. 7f., no. 6), a restored torso in Venice (Photographische Einzelaufnahmen, no. 2410), and a fragmentary torso in Mérida (A. García y Bellido, Esculturas romanas de España y Portugal, 1949, p. 185f., no. 209, pl. 154). The original type was probably created in the late Hellenistic period.
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