Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from an American Private Collection
An Alabaster Head of a Woman, Southern Arabia, circa 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
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July 6, 12:05 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description
Property from an American Private Collection
An Alabaster Head of a Woman
Southern Arabia, circa 1st Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
with long slightly tapering neck, oval face, long straight nose with grooved nostrils, large eyes and slightly arched eyebrows recessed for inlay, and long coiffure once completed in stucco.
Height 28.3 cm.
the photographer and explorer, Ingeborg de Beausacq (1910-2003)
Sotheby’s, New York, December 8th, 1995, no. 150, illus.
For a head very similar in style (American Foundation for the Study of Man, TCx21, called “Miriam”) see Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen, St. John Simpson, ed., The British Museum, London, 2002, cat. 270.