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LOT 0533
Phoenician Grey Stone Statue Head
CIRCA 8TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
5 1/2 in. (340 grams total, 14 cm high including stand).
Carved head from a statue of a kouros with banded hair, large lentoid eyes, soft facial features; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Sotheby's circa 2005.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, under accession no.32.11.1.
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