Lot 58, draped female, marble, Roman, circa 2nd Century A.D., 62 1/2 inches high

Lot 58 is a very beautiful, headless Roman marble sculpture of a headless woman that is circa 2nd Century A.D.  It is 62 1/2 inches high.

The arrangement of the drapery recalls that seen on the "large Herculaneum Woman," named for one of the three marbles discovered there by Johann Winckelmann in 1755 and now in Dresden. The type is known from numerous Roman versions, often employed for private portraiture, but traces its origins to the 4th century B.C.

The lot has an estimate of $60,000 to $90,000.  It sold for $60,000.

Price Realized is hammer price plus buyer’s premium and does not reflect costs, financing fees or application of buyer’s or seller’s credits.

Lot 59, Venus, marble, Roman, 1st Century-2nd Century A.D., 18 1/8 inches high

Lot 59 is a very nice headless marble Roman sculpture of Venus fromthe 1st Century-2nd Century A.D.  It is 18 1./8 inches high. The goddess depicted standing with her weight on her left leg, the right relaxed and slightly bent at the knee, a voluminous diaphanous chiton enveloping her sensuous body, revealing a slightly protruding belly, her left breast exposed, with drapery falling over the crook of her bent left arm, her right arm originally raised. This figure is a variation of the Aphrodite Frejus or Venus Genetrix type. Based on a late 5th century B.C. Greek prototype, it was further popularized in the Julio-Claudian Period, as Julius Caesar and his successors sought to identify the goddess as progenitor of their family. Claiming direct descent from the goddess and Aeneas, Caesar built a temple to Venus Genetrix in his forum in Rome in 45 B.C. It has an estiamte of $25,000 to $35,000.  It sold for $32,500.

Lot 60, draped male torso, Roman, marble, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D., 16 3/4 inches high

Lot 60 is a very handsome, Roman marble draped male torso, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.  It is 16 3/4 inches high.  It has an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000.  It failed to sell.

Lot 65, Torso of Venus, marble, Roman, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D., 24 1/2 inches high

Lot 65 is a Roman marble torso of Venus circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.  It is 24 1/2 inches high.  The voluptuous goddess depicted nude, standing with her weight on her right leg, the left leg slightly advanced, her upper torso subtly angled forward, her right arm once lowered with the hand covering the pudenda, adorned with an armband on her left bicep, the remains of her fingers and a partially-preserved strut on her thighs.  The catalogue entry notes that the position of the arms of the Venus presented here suggests she is a version of the Praxiteles statue of Aphrodite of Knidos. She closely recalls the "Colonna" type, depicted nude, who leans on her himation which drapes over a hydria.  The lot has an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000.  It sold for $185,000.

Lot 72, Sarcophagus fragment, marble, Roman, circa 2nd Century A.D., 23 inches long

Sculpted in high relief, preserving a reclining female figure in back view, nude but for a mantle draped over her legs and over her proper left arm on which she leans, her slender body with well-defined buttocks and an articulated spine, her head dramatically turned and gazing upwards, with wavy hair bound in a chignon at the nape of her neck, a wheel, likely from a chariot, preserved in the background and a snaky tendril, preserved above her abdomen.  There is a similar scene from a sarcophagus depicting the rape of Persephone now in the Capitoline Museum.  The lot has a very modest estimate of $7,000 to $9,000.  It sold for $20,000.