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LOT 0236
Marlik Bronze Maternity Figure
9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (40 grams, 77 mm).
Openwork body with integral horned head, loops to the shoulders and breasts; separate arms mounted in the shoulder-rings, applied pellets and braid detailing.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12698-234680.
Cf. The Profane and the Divine. Art of Antiquity from Europe to Southeast Asia. Fleurons du Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, 2008, pp.386 and 505.
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