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LOT 0570
Greek Terracotta Head
TARENTINE, 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.
2 in. (22 grams, 49 mm).
Female head moulded with a segmented conical cap, pierced ears visible beneath; the head slightly turned and tilted downwards on a slender neck.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
Cf. similar though larger Tarentine female head in the Metropolitan Museum under accession number: 2013.612.
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