Lot Essay
For a similar example from Capua, now in the Johns Hopkins University Collection, see no. 84 in Williams, The Archaeological Collection of the Johns Hopkins University.
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THE PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA ANTEFIX
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA ANTEFIX
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Molded in the form of a female head, her hair arranged in vertical ridges across her forehead, wearing a necklace composed of spherical and disk-shaped beads centered by an acorn pendant, surrounded by radiate tongues springing from a raised band, each end coiled into a volute, preserving red and black pigment throughout
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Molded in the form of a female head, her hair arranged in vertical ridges across her forehead, wearing a necklace composed of spherical and disk-shaped beads centered by an acorn pendant, surrounded by radiate tongues springing from a raised band, each end coiled into a volute, preserving red and black pigment throughout
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Kelts Collection, La Jolla, California, prior to the 1970s.
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