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A MARBLE FIGURE OF DIONYSOS, ROMAN IMPERIAL, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D. | A Marble Figure of Dionysos
Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description
- marble
- Total height 87 cm.
the young god standing with the weight on his left leg, his hair falling in long curly locks over the shoulders, and wearing high-laced sandals and himation draped over his left shoulder and loosely wrapped around the waist; repaired across the abdomen with small areas of restoration along the breakline.
Provenance
Khawam Brothers, Cairo, late 1950s
Christie’s, London, July 11th, 1973, no. 194, illus.
Galerie Perpitch, Paris
French private collection, acquired from the above in 1993 (Sotheby's, New York, June 4th, 2014, no. 15, illus.)
Christie’s, London, July 11th, 1973, no. 194, illus.
Galerie Perpitch, Paris
French private collection, acquired from the above in 1993 (Sotheby's, New York, June 4th, 2014, no. 15, illus.)
Literature
Fredrik Hagen and Kim Ryholt, The Antiquities Trade in Egypt 1880–1930. The H.O. Lange Papers, Copenhagen, 2016, p. 81, fig. 65, showing the present lot in the background (photo captioned "Joseph Khawam in the family shop, late 1950s. Newspaper clipping; source not located")