Italian school of the 18th century The emperor Caracalla (188-217) White marble bust. Total height 58,5 cm on a circular marble pedestal, height 10 cm. (wear and small chip in the hair and accidents on the protruding parts of the drapery on the reverse side and on the pedestal) From the castle of a former mayor of Chartres under the Restoration The Emperor is dressed in the paludamentum attached on his right shoulder by a round fibula. The toga covers an armor decorated with a chimera representing a winged human face.

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