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Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
4 1/4 in. (64 grams total, 10.9 cm high including stand).
An attractive head from a statuette of a goddess, thick hair ornately coiffed, lips pouted, and the traces of the artisan’s fingerprints preserved along the neck; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
PROVENANCE:
From the private collection of C.R., Ticino, Switzerland, before 1970.
with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
PUBLISHED:
Bignasca, A., Antike Kunst, 1992, p.18ff, pl.5-14, Cg. Winter, 116/4.
FOOTNOTES:
The cults of Demeter and her daughter Persephone (kore) were particularly prominent in Magna Graecia, and likely this is a representation of one of these goddesses.
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