EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A LARGE WEST GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD
EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Her hair worn in luxuriant tight curls, with full lips and almond-shaped eyes with incised pupils, her ears pierced, wearing a fillet with applied disc rosettes and diadem (restored), vent hole on crown of head
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in 1985, Paris.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Antiken aus dem östlichen Mittelmeerraum, Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1987, no. 19.

This head belongs to a distinct group of votive heads, each wearing a tall polos, and dedicated to either the goddess Persephone at Morgantina or Demeter Malophoros at Selinus.

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