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LOT 1144

Sold for (Inc. bp): £221

WESTERN ASIATIC TERRACOTTA VOTIVE IDOL GROUP
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/8 - 4 5/8 in. (210 grams total, 10.5-11.8 cm including stand).

Comprising: columnar figure with arms raised; similar with stub arms and applied mouth and ears; tabular figure with hands held before the chest gripping a disc, perhaps a patera; each mounted on a custom-made display stand. [3, No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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.

CONDITION
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