Head of a woman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
340 x 170 x 210 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436831
Summary
Marble on turned marble socle, head of a woman, possibly antique. The marble head of woman, originally part of a full-sized statue, mounted from the neck on a turned marble socle (18th or 19th century). The woman has wavy, centrally parted hair with what appear to be small horns or probably the remains of a headdress, now missing, on the forehead. She looks upright to proper right; the pupils in her eyes may have been carved in later. The nose, neck and marble socle are badly chipped, the whole severely weathered.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)