AENEOLITHIC, OZIERI CULTURE, CIRCA 2500-2000 B.C.

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A SARDINIAN MARBLE HEAD
AENEOLITHIC, OZIERI CULTURE, CIRCA 2500-2000 B.C.
1 ¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva; thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

For an example of a complete Sardinian marble abstract female idol with similar oval head and long straight nose, cf. J. Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades, Chicago and London, 1977, p. 577, no. 580. According to the author one must assume that such Sardinian idols would have been based on Cycladic models, given the closeness in style and shape.

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