LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.

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A CYCLADIC MARBLE HEADLESS FEMALE FIGURE
LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) high

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

With the wide sloping shoulder, delineated fingers and pubic area just below the folded arms with absence of a stomach area, this figure bears some of the characteristics of the Naxos Museum Master. Cf. pl. 31-33 in. P. Getz-Preziosi, Sculptors of the Cyclades, Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium B.C., Michigan, 1987.

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