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LOT 0056
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]
ProvenanceCollection 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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