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LOT 0584

Greek Terracotta Head of a Female

TARENTINE, 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.

2 1/4 in. (43 grams, 56 mm).

Female head moulded with a segmented conical cap with earlobes visible beneath; the head slightly turned and tilted downwards on a long slender neck.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

Cf. similar though larger Tarentine female head in the Metropolitan Museum under accession number: 2013.612.

CONDITION

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LOT 0584

Greek Terracotta Head of a Female

Sold for (Inc. bp): £221

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