A Roman Marble Head of a Woman, 1st/2nd Century A.D.

advanced in age, with pronounced flesh folds on the neck, parted lips, aquiline nose, eyes drilled at the inner corners, and long centrally-parted hair surmounted by a headcloth tied at the back; mounted on a colored marble bust and socle of the 18th/19th Century.

European private collection, 18th/19th Century (based on shoulders and socle)
private collection, Paris, acquired in the early 1980s

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