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Provenance:
Likely George Anastase Michaelides (1900-1973) collection, 1930s-1940s.
Private collection, London, acquired in the early 1970s.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 29 October 2003, lot 121.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, 2005, no. 129).
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above on the 2 December 2006.
The flat-backed youth is depicted wearing an Egyptian style wig. This Egyptianising influence can also be seen in two limestone busts of musicians in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, cf. V. Karageorghis, Ancient Art from Cyprus, the Cesnola Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, pp. 132-133, nos. 198-9.