A Carved Marble Mask of a Youth
8th CENTURY
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L O T 8
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With almond-shaped eye apertures, and realistically carved nose and mouth.
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Broken into fragments and reconstructed, with very minor losses and smoothing along the breaks, stained and with minor pitting.
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In the Philadelphia-based collection of George Anderson until 1969. Sold to Henry Clarkson in New York in 1972, where it remained until his collection was dispersed in 1989.
LOT 8
A Carved Marble Mask of a Youth