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22 - ROMAN HEAD OF A SOLDIER
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£8,000 - 12,000 (€9,500 - 15,000)Sale fees
ROMAN HEAD OF A SOLDIER ITALY, C. 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D. marble, depicting a helmeted soldier with asymmetrical features; bearded, with parted lips and almond eyes; the cheek pieces coming down to the jawline with an ornamental swirl on the top left of the helmet, raised on a bespoke mount 15cm high (unmounted) Provenance: Baron J. von Nagel, The Schallenburg, Austria; prior to WWII, thence moved to Münsterland, Germany Sophie von Nagel, London, UK; gifted from the above and brought to the UK 1971-1973, with a letter of provenance Compare the scenes of the Aurelian Column, published in Michel Feugère, Weapons of the Romans (Paris, 1993), p.99, fig.120. Compare an example in low relief in the British Museum, London, object number 1951,0306.1. Also compare Jan Stubbe Østergaard, Catalogue: Imperial Rome (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1996), no.61
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