A Cypriot Limestone Head of a Goddess, Perhaps Aphrodite or Demeter

A Cypriot Limestone Head of a Goddess, Perhaps Aphrodite or Demeter

Circa 2nd Century B.C.

Height 9 1/2 inches. Continental Decorative Arts
Intact as preserved. The bridge and tip of the nose, parts of the lips and part of the chin lost. The top of the hair also with a very weathered, mostly-lost surface. No noticeable restoration. The Crowley letter and Getty Museum letter will be available to the purchaser.

Note:
John Crowley was a prominent Pasadena businessman who later in life was elected to the Pasadena Board of Directors (city council) and served two years as Mayor of Pasadena. His wife Barbara Crowley was a probate and estate attorney in Los Angeles and the first female attorney at the firm of Barton, Klugman & Oetting, LLP. She was also a prominent figure within the field of study concerning Shakespeare authorship controversy.

Provenance:
Said to be found in Pasadena, California in 1966, probably from an installation circa 1906 (with statement from John C. Crowley);
thence by family descent to the present owner.

Note:
See a related letter from Dr. Jiri Frel, Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum, dated 1977.