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LOT 0054
Cypriot Limestone Standing Musician
CIRCA 5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
11 7/8 in. (1.3 kg, 30 cm).
Carved in the round, a figure wearing a floor-length robe and holding a stringed instrument in the crook of his left arm and playing it with his right hand; cascading curls of hair frame the face with a diadem to the brow; underside drilled for insertion of a mounting rod. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Bonhams, 26 November 1997, no.276.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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