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Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/4 in. (5.89 grams, 61 mm).
Modelled as a stylised female figure, in two parts with hourglass waist, angular hips, pellet breasts, slender arms held across the chest, wearing a headdress and large hoop earrings with dangles, series of annulets over the body, geometric forms to the reverse composed of raised lines with pellet terminals.
PROVENANCE:
Ex SM collection, London, UK; 1970-1999.
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.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2003, p.257, for a broadly comparable lead female idol.
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