A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
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A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE

KAPSALA VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2700-2600 B.C.

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A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
KAPSALA VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2700-2600 B.C.
The reclining figure with oval-shaped face tapering to a rounded chin, slender elongated neck, sloping shoulders, the arms crossed right below left beneath the breasts, with groove running up the spine and long slender legs
11 in. (28 cm.) high
Provenance
with Galerie Kamer, New York, early 1970s.
Private collection, Geneva, acquired 1972.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For Kapsala-Variety figures cf. P. Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collection, Richmond, 1987, pp. 152-159 and J. Thimme (ed.), Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C., Chicago, 1977, pp. 457-459.

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