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A Cypriot Limestone Head of God, Priest, or Votary, circa 490-450 B.C.
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- A Cypriot Limestone Head of God, Priest, or Votary
- Limestone
- Height 13 1/4 in. 30.7 cm.
from a slightly over life-size figure, with full beard of voluted curls, long grooved moustache, and fragmentary aquiline nose, his ribbed hair radiating from the crown, corkscrew curls in front, and surmounted by a wreath of laurel leaves, a shallow grooved line crossing the forehead; faint traces of red pigment.
Provenance
estate of the fashion designer Gustave Tassell (1926-2014), Los Angeles
Literature
Dave G. Houser, “The Attic Spirit; Gustave Tassell’s Paean to Greece in Los Angeles,” Architectural Digest, September 1983, illus. on pp. 106, 107 and 108
Catalogue Note
For closely related heads cf. F.N. Pryce, Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum, vol. I, Part II, Cypriote and Etruscan, London, 1931, C151 and C155.