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LOT 0600
Greek Terracotta Head of an Actor
TARENTINE, 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
1 3/4 in. (44 grams, 45 mm).
Modelled in the round with wrinkled brow, sloping eyebrows, thick nose and pellet eyes with discoid surrounds, small pouting mouth.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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