A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF THE CASSEL APOLLO, the long broad face with strong features, a full chin and lips, and aquiline nose, with elaborately dressed hair which is bound in a narrow fillet, falling in 's'-shaped curls over his brow and two thick corkscrew curls framing his face on either side, drawn into a double-plait at the back which falls loose at the nape of his neck, on later socled mount

细节

A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF THE CASSEL APOLLO, the long broad face with strong features, a full chin and lips, and aquiline nose, with elaborately dressed hair which is bound in a narrow fillet, falling in 's'-shaped curls over his brow and two thick corkscrew curls framing his face on either side, drawn into a double-plait at the back which falls loose at the nape of his neck, on later socled mount
second half of the 1st Century A.D., after a mid-5th Century B.C. Greek bronze original generally attributed to Pheidias or his workshop
13in. (33cm.) high

Condition: tip of nose restored, minor surface chips

拍品专文

The Cassel Apollo was widely copied in Roman times; two complete statues are known as well as many heads, torsoes and smaller statuettes, cf. Eva-Maria Schmidt, Antike Plastik, 5, 1966; also, M. Bieber, Die Antiken Sculpturen und Bronzen des Königl. Museum Fredericianum in Cassel, Marburg, 1915, pls. I-VIII for the complete statue