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LOT 0065

Sold for (Inc. bp): £910

BOEOTIAN PLANK IDOL OF A GODDESS
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
9 in. (157 grams, 23 cm).

Tapering flat-section body with ledge base, stub arms, applied facial detailing, tall polos headdress. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report from Oxford Authentication no.N124d7.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12087-214721.

CONDITION
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