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LOT 1352
Syro-Hittite Lead Fertility Idol
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 in. (30 grams, 70 mm).
A plaque depicting a stylised man and woman conjoined at hips, flanking a small child holding their legs, the woman with large head and long hair, holding her breasts, the man wearing a loin cloth and conical headdress, holding the woman by the arm. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex property of a Dutch gentleman; formerly in an old Dutch collection formed in the 1970s.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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