A GREEK TERRACOTTA GORGONEION ANTEFIX
PROPERTY FROM THE JOUKOWSKY COLLECTION
A GREEK TERRACOTTA GORGONEION ANTEFIX

TARENTINE, LATE ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 500 B.C.

Details
A GREEK TERRACOTTA GORGONEION ANTEFIX
TARENTINE, LATE ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 500 B.C.
8 ¼ in. (20.9 cm.) wide
Provenance
Art Market, London.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 23 March 1971, lot 85.
with Folio Fine Art, London, acquired from the above.
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky (1930-2020) and Dr. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (1936-2022), Providence, RI, acquired 1967-1974; thence by descent to the current owners.
Literature
T. Hackens and R. Winkes, eds., Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1985, pp. 63-64, no. 54.
Exhibited
Providence, List Art Center, Brown University, Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection, 12 October-8 November 1985.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, see K. Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, no. V 275.

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