CIRCA 5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A NEOLITHIC POTTERY STEATOPYGOUS IDOL
CIRCA 5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
Of anthropomorphic form, with tapered outstretched arms and stylized upturned head, the body with rounded exaggerated stomach and buttocks, legs tapering below, repaired with some restoration
7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Formerly in a Belgian private collection of European Neolithic pottery and stone antiquities.

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Lot Essay

Cf. T. G. E. Powell, Prehistoric Art, London, 1966, p. 97, fig. 91, for a similar steatopygous idol with upturned face and outstretched arms from the Lengyel Culture, Moravia; and M. Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess, San Francisco, 1989, p. 103, fig. 168 (3) for similar conical-shaped body.

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