Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 20th September 2023
Lot 1039
A Greek Archaic style marble head of a kouros
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £3200
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Description
A Greek Archaic style marble head of a kouros
with large almond shape eyes, straight nose and pursed lips, the diced coiffure with forehead curls and bobbin side locks, with a strapped flat cap to the crown and behind each ear a bronze pin to previously take a metal band around the back of the hair in a cut-out recess,
26.5cm high, fixed in a stone block.
Provenance
Adolphe Stoclet Collection, Brussels, 1871-1949.