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LOT 0574
Boeotian Terracotta Idol
6TH CENTURY B.C.
7 in. (122 grams, 18 cm).
Formed with pinched stub arms and a pinched head crowned with a headpiece; remains of geometric detailing in painted pigment; repaired.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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