AN ITALIAN SPECIMEN MARBLE GRAND TOUR BUST OF THE PSEUDO SENECA AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH CENTURY the white marble bearded philosopher wearing a Sicilian jasper and alabastro fiorito breast plate and a sash, on a grey marble socle base; together with an associated mixed marble column of tapering square section with a stepped foot (2) overall : 194cm Catalogue Note The head of the lot offered is based on a late 1st century BC Roman bust excavated at Herculaneum in 1754. Originally thought to represent the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger, but current thinking suggests that it perhaps represents Hesiod or Aristophanes.

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