A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE

CHALANDRIANI VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2300-2200 B.C.

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A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
chalandriani variety, early cycladic ii, circa 2300-2200 b.c.
Sculpted with a small triangular head tilted slightly backward and a long bulging neck, the broad shoulders upward sloping, the arms bent sharply at the elbows, the right arm above the left and directed more diagonally across the mid-riff, with the right hand resting just below the left breast, the legs together with the feet angled down, a narrow cleft extending from the pubic triangle to the toes, on the back the cleft extending from the top of the buttocks to the toes
7.15/16 in. (20.2 cm) high

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With three old collection stickers on the stand and a collection number painted at the nape of the neck.

Cycladic figures with the right arm crossing above the left are considerably rarer than the canonical form, where the position is reversed. For an example with a similar head angle and torso shape see no. 238 in Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades.

There are only two other Cycladic figures known with upward sloping shoulders; both are Chalandriani Variety. One in the Naxos Museum (no. 200), unpublished, is now missing its head and lower extremities. The other was found in the cemetery of Chalandriani on Syros and is now in the National Museum in Athens, pl. 245 in Zervos, L'art des Cyclades.

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