A ROMAN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE HERM HEAD OF HERMES PROPYLAIOS

Lot 7
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1450938
Lot 7 | A ROMAN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE HERM HEAD OF HERMES PROPYLAIOS
Valeur estimée
£ 80 000 – 120 000
A ROMAN ARCHAISTIC BRONZE HERM HEAD OF HERMES PROPYLAIOS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C. - 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The god with flowing beard and moustache, hair arranged in three rows of archaic-style tight curls, wearing a fillet, pupils recessed for now-missing inlays.
9 in. (23 cm.) high




Provenance

Probably acquired by Sir Francis Dashwood, 2nd Baronet (1708-1781), West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire, circa 1729 or after.
Thence by descent to Sir Francis Dashwood, 11th Baronet (1925-2000), West Wycombe Park.
The Property of Sir Francis Dashwood, Bt.; Christie's, London, 16 March 1977, lot 232 (when it was mounted on a later yellow marble bust, catalogued as 17th Century A.D.).
Swiss private collection.
Antiquities; Christie's, London, 2 May 2013, lot 114.



Literature

Country Life, 13th May 1933, illustration of "The Music Saloon" on p. 495.
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