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LOT 1952
Large Amlash Style Steatopygous Terracotta Idol
20TH CENTURY A.D.
17 1/2 in. (3.21 kg total, 44.5 cm high including stand).
With exaggerated broad hips and short tapering legs, the arms held at right angles across the body, long tapering neck and discoid face with incised eyes and projecting nose, lateral lobe ears; incised roundel motifs to the throat, navel and knees; reverse with a vertical pillar and zigzag ornament indicating the hair; open at the top of the head with crenellated rim; mounted on custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureSee Bailey, D.W., The Figures of Old Europe, in The Lost World of Old Europe, 2010, items 4, 12, 29 and 30; for a similar but smaller example.
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