古羅馬 大理石 奧比安娜皇后肖像頭像 - 27.5 cm

Roman Portrait Head of the Empress Orbiana
Late Severan Period, late 3rd century A.D.

Slightly gazing upward, with arched brows over finely lidded articulated eyes, small mouth lightly drilled at the corners, her hair summarily dressed, combed in parallel rows running from the forehead to the back, unfinished work, probably due to the damnatio memoriae of the wife of Emperor Severus Alexander, on socled mount.
27.5 cm. high

Provenance
Collection Philipp Speakman Webb, 1831-1915, Milford House, Surrey
London art market, 1990
Swiss private collection, 1990-2017

Publication
Gustavo Traversari, Nuovo ritratto di Orbiana un tempo nella collezione di Philip Webb, in: Rivista di archeologia, anno XX, 1996, 70-82, Taf. 1-25.

Note
Philip Webb, born in Oxford, was friend and colleague of William Morris. They were both the most important architects of the Arts and Crafts-movement in London and founder of the Society for the Protection of Ancient
Buildings in 1877.

Condition
Nose broken and restored, minor chips and scratches at front, cheeks, chin and back of the head

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