A charming fragment of a Campana relief
1st century BC - 1st century AD; alt. cm 7,5; Part of a relief that belongs to a cladding tile decorated with a female head. She has a full face, executed in Greek style and characterized by a stern expression, her lips shut tight and her eyes with irises incised, she has thick curly hair that covers her forehead and ears; she wears a fillet and button earrings.
This kind of relief would have been painted and used as cladding for the decoration of public and private buildings principally during the Augustan Age, but also for the entire Julio-Claudian epoch, which lasted until the second century A.D. They take their name from an important collection assembled in the first-half of the 19th century by the Marquess Giampietro Campana.

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, London; acquired on the European art market in the 1990s.

Estimate: GBP: 800-1.200