A Roman marble head of a Venus
Circa 1st Century A.D.
With lidded almond-shaped eyes set beneath arching brows, and full, pert lips, her wavy centrally-parted hair drawn back from her oval face and arranged in a top-knot, 10cm high注脚Provenance:
Private collection, Massachusetts, gifted from a friend who acquired the piece at a Phillips auction in London prior to 2001; and thence by descent to the present owner.