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10 juin 2016

A Marble Head of a Woman, Queen, or Goddess, Egypt, Late Hellenistic, circa 1st Century B.C.

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Lot 56. A Marble Head of a Woman, Queen, or Goddess, Egypt, Late Hellenistic, circa 1st Century B.C. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.

from a monumental figure, turned to her right, with long neck, idealized oval face with bow-shaped lips, and slightly upturned nose merging into finely arched brows, her wavy hair parted in the center and surmounted by a diadem, the back carved flat, with two dowel holes, and a channel for a marble clamp at neck-level; no restorationsTotal height 48.3 cm. 19 in.; height of face 19 cm. 7 1/2 in.

ProvenanceLaura Williamina Hohenlohe-Langenburg-Gleichen, Countess von Gleichen, born Seymour (1833-1912), England, acquired in Egypt
American private collection, after 1912
Jonas Senter (1917-2001), New York, acquired at auction in the 1970s
the Estate of Jonas Senter (Sotheby’s, New York, December 9th, 2003, no. 11, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale

LiteratureAndré Boulanger, "Tête féminine provenant d’Égypte," Revue archéologique, vol. 19, 1912, pp. 110ff., figs. 1-3 (photos sent to the author by Salomon Reinach)
Georg Lippold, ed., Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Skulpturen, nos. 5047–5048, illus.

Note: The flat back suggests that the head was carved for insertion into a veiled statue, as exemplified in an over-lifesize honorific statue from Magnesia ad Maeandrum (D. Pinkwart, Antike Plastik, vol. 12, 1973, p. 149f., no. 1, pls. 49ff.); the face and neck were carved separately and inserted into a statue with the mantle draped as a veil over the head. The present head also shows stylistic similarities to the head of this statue (dedicated circa 62 B.C.), and may therefore be dated in the same period. It could have been a highly idealized portrait; cf. a head of similar size and technique from Kalydon, interpreted as the head of a honorific statue: P. Bol, Antike Plastik, vol. 19, 1988, p. 42, pl. 33.

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Pre-1912 photograph of the present lot.

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Head of the Statue from Magnesia (Pinkwart, op. cit., fig. 1) © DAI Istanbul (W. Schiele 1968).

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Sotheby's. Ancient Marbles: Classical Sculpture and Works of Art, London, 13 Jun 2016, 02:00 PM

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