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LOT 2315
Indus Valley Clay Fertility Idol
33RD-13TH CENTURY B.C.
7 1/4 in. (540 grams, 18.5 cm).
A stylised female figure with bell-shaped body, applied arms and hands clasped between conical breasts, lentoid-section head with broad nose, incised eyes and circular recessed mouth, fingers expressed as incised lines, pricked dots to the front of the body; hollow-formed. [No Reserve]
Provenance
UK gallery, acquired in the 2000s.
Property of an English gentleman.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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