CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A LARGE ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA VOTIVE KORE
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
18 1/8 in. (46 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 May 1986, lot 303.
Elsa Bloch-Diener collection, acquired from the above sale.

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Lot Essay

Starting in the 5th century B.C., votive offerings in terracotta gained increasing popularity throughout Etruria, southern Latium and northern Campania. Often such votives depicted parts of the human anatomy for dedications of healing or fertility. More often votives took the form of a human head or bust, as a representative of the whole person. More rarely the full human form, like the present example, was depicted.

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