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LOT 251353
Phoenician Bronze Head
6TH CENTURY B.C.
3 in. (329 grams, 78 mm).
Hollow to the reverse, with tiered headdress and recessed lentoid eyes, small pouting mouth.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. similar faces in the Phoenician-Iberian figure on the ‘bronzo carriazo’ in Moscati, S., I Fenici Milano, 1989, p.236; Jimenez Avila, J.'Phoenician Bronze in Spain. A Western Phoenician Bronzework' in Jimenez Avila, J. (ed.), Phoenician Bronzes in Mediterranean, Madrid, 2015, pp.395-442, figs.30 (Hathoric Goddess).
Footnotes
The female bust retains certain features of the Levantine art, like the oval eyes. The thick line highlighting the eyelids emphasizes the power of her gaze. The image spread into the interior of the Iberian Peninsula with the aristocratic trade of the Tartessian period.
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LOT 251353
Phoenician Bronze Head
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£400 (EUR 464; USD 540) +BP*
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