A MARBLE RELIEF FRAGMENT, 2ND QUARTER OF THE 5TH CENTURY B.C., OR LATER

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A MARBLE RELIEF FRAGMENT, 2ND QUARTER OF THE 5TH CENTURY B.C., OR LATER

carved in low relief with a woman moving to left, her right arm raised, her left arm bent at the elbow, and wearing a long chiton with overfold and buttons on the upper arms, her long wavy hair parted in the center, bound in a fillet, and pulled up under the fillet at the back, a string of pearls adorning the head and falling onto the shoulders, the heel and drapery of a second figure on the left, traces of a staff from a third figure on the right; right edge carved flat for attachment of an adjoining panel, anathyrosis on the back.
81 by 43 by 3.5/4.5 cm; preserved height of figure 71 cm; height of head 10.5 cm.

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Provenance:
London art market, prior to 1929

Christian Bernard Collection, Paris

French private Collection, by descent

Galerie Sismann, Paris

acquired by the present owner from the above (as 19th/early 20th Century)

Published

Carlo Albizzati, "Nuove e vecchie trovate dei fabbricanti d’antichità," Historia. Studi storici per l’antichità classica, vol. 3, 1929, p. 659f., fig. 5

Georg Lippold, ed., Photographische Einzelaufnahmen antiker Sculpturen, series 17b, Munich, 1947, no. 5084, illus.