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Grotesque Head of an "Orator"
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Pudgy, wrinkled face of a man with a large, bulbous nose. Good hand-modeling, with no trace of slip or color. Broken vertically in half behind ears and repaired.
Hard, reddish-brown clay with very little mica.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Royal Museum of Art and History Brussels; gift to Fogg Art Museum 1935.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels
Title: Grotesque Head of an "Orator"
Description:
Pudgy, wrinkled face of a man with a large, bulbous nose.
Good hand-modeling, with no trace of slip or color.
Broken vertically in half behind ears and repaired.
Hard, reddish-brown clay with very little mica.
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