A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Property from a Private Collection, Hawaii
A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HERMES, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

turned to his left, the youthful face with full bow-shaped lips and deep-set eyes, his short hair surmounted by a petasos, the base of the neck originally carved for insertion; no restorations, underside of neck carved flat in modern times.
Height 31 cm; height of face 14 cm.

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Provenance:
Ernest (d. 1964) and Charlotte Goldsmith, New York

Stephen E. Goldsmith (1944-2009), Wailuku, Hawaii, by descent from the above

received as a gift from the above by the present owner