"The protome in the form of a male bust emerging from five curling acanthus leaves, wearing a thick collar necklace and large pendant earrings, his long hair dressed in thick ringlets, with luxurious curling hair over the crown of his head, a neat beard in layers of horizontal curls and a long curling moustache, with aquiline nose and large lidded eyes, terminating in a naturalistically modelled lion paw foot on spool-shaped base, with attachment tenon emerging from his back 14 in. (35.6 cm.) high"