Lot 64
A Stone Bust of "Aspasia, the Mistress of Pericles", after the Antique, bearing apocryphal inscription (in block capitals) on reverse of shoulder truncation, "H. Powers/Scalp"[sic], and titled on front truncation, height 19 1/2 in., width 12 1/4 in., depth 8 3/4 in. Note: Evidently modeled on the well-known Antique prototype in the Museo Pio-Clementino at the Vatican (inv. no. 272), a Roman copy of Aspasia's presumed funeral stele (that copy having been discovered in 1777), this bust repeats the physiognomy, coiffure and costume of perhaps the most celebrated woman of the 5th c. B.C. in Greece, as recorded in similar original busts, recovered through more recent archaeology (such as the example in the Izmir Museum, Turkey). Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470-410 B.C.) was the common-law wife of the great Athenian leader Pericles, from c. 445 B.C. until his death in 429 She is remembered through a considerable series of references in the works of the most prominent Athenian playwrights, poets, historians, and orators.
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