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Cypriot Carved Limestone Head

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Ancient Cypriot Limestone Head c.1500 BC.: Ancient Cypriot Limestone Head c.1500 BC. Size 3 inches high.+ marble stand. Fine carved limestone head of a youth. Great quality and details. Mounted on marble base. Provenance: Private NYC collectio

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Published Cypriot Limestone Head ex-Metropolitan Museum: Cyprus, early Hellenistic Period, ca. 310 BCE. This is a quarter-size limestone head, depicting a male youth wearing a laurel wreath over slightly wavy hair. His face has classically beautiful feature

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Roman Limestone Head of a God: Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A skillfully carved limestone head of a god with a beard - either Jupiter (Zeus) or Neptune (Poseidon). The god has a huge head of hair and a fulsome

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Ancient Greek Limestone Head Ca. 3rd cent BC: Ancient Greek Limestone Head Ca. 3rd cent BC. Size of the head 0 3/4 inches high x 1 1/8 inches deep. Fine carved limestone head of a youth, a fragment from a statue. Provenance: Provenance:Private Br

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Cypriot limestone male head: Title: Cypriot limestone male head Description: This head shows the figure of a male figure with an oval face characterised by archaic features such as almond-shaped eyes, an elongated nose with large

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Ancient Roman Limestone Head Fragment of a Man c.1st-2nd century AD.: Ancient Roman Limestone Head Fragment of a Man c.1st-2nd century AD. Size 6 1/2 inches high + mount. Fine carved limestone fragment head of a man wearing a wreath head band with a bust in the center,

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Ancient Roman Limestone Female Head c.2nd century AD.: Ancient Roman Limestone Female Head c.2nd century AD. Size 2 1/4 inches high. + mount. Fine quality carved limestone female head fragment from a full figure. Provenance:Ex. The time Machine.

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GERMAN LIMESTONE CARVED GOTHIC HEAD: circa 14th Century Provenance: with canceled check to Peter Pollack, New York, 1974 head measures 7 inches high, 13 total inches high

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Egyptian Sculptor's Model of a Male Head: Late Period, 664-332 BC. A limestone model head carved in the round as a bald male with semi-naturalistic facial features, slender almond eyes, bulbous nose, closed mouth, fleshy chin and roughly deli

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English Medieval Limestone Cornice Section with Crowned Head: 13th-14th century A.D. A carved limestone cornice section with chamfered forward edge and youthful male head with narrow chin and nose, wearing a crown and with the hair swept back from the face. 14.5

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A Persian limestone head of a bearded male: A Persian limestone head of a bearded male, c. 1st Century BC, wearing a pointed headdress, the features handsomely carved and very much resembles the colossal heads atop Mt. Nimrud in Turkey, erected

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Interesting ancient Levantine limestone head of a man: An interesting ancient Levantine limestone sculpted head of a man, c. 2nd Millennium BC, wearing a diadem, the facial features deeply carved with large eyes. Some light weathering and mineral deposits

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Cypriot carved limestone head of a man; wearing tall headdress and with pensive expression; Circa 500 B.C.; Provenance: with copy of original 1966 invoice from Spink & Son, Ltd.; H: 4 3/4"; on plinth wood bass

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Cypriot Carved Limestone Head

Name: Cypriot Carved Limestone Head
SKU: 50021714
Price: 550 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $1,000 - $1,200

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Starting Price $500

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