A bronze oval medallion After The Antique With the bust of a Roman lady of high birth, with ornately bound hair, with lettering around the edge, 5.7cm, ink inscribed on the reverse ‘Woodhouse Coll, 1907’. Provenance: The Estate of costume designer...

A bronze oval medallion After The Antique With the bust of a Roman lady of high birth, with ornately bound hair, with lettering around the edge, 5.7cm, ink inscribed on the reverse ‘Woodhouse Coll, 1907’. Provenance: The Estate of costume designer Anthony Powell (1935-2021). For the type, cf. a medallion described as a profile portrait of Marciana, elder sister of Emperor Trajan, in Wilhelm Bode, Die Italienischen Bronzen (Berlin 1904), no.601, pl.XLI.
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