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LOT 0056

Sold for (Inc. bp): £468

CYPRIOT TERRACOTTA FEMALE FIGURINE HOLDING A CHILD
650-600 B.C.
3 1/4 in. (87 grams, 82 mm).

With flared base, press-moulded facial detail, irregular arms encircling a naïve figure of a swaddled baby; old inked collector's number '113' to reverse and label with same; later drilled hole to underside. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Collection of Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), Saint-Nicolas-lez-Arras and Rouen, thence by descent.
with Millon & Associes Auctions, Paris, 6th December 2021, lot 41 [Part].

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