Lot Essay
This piece is featured in archival photograph from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1970s or prior.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MIAMI BEACH
A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.
Details
A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.
Depicted reclining, sculpted with a lyre-shaped head, a slender triangular nose, and a tapering neck, the shoulders sloping, the arms folded right below left beneath small breasts, with a flat abdomen, the upper thighs raised in front at the join to the torso, the legs divided by a deep cleft in the front and a shallow cleft at the back, the spine articulated
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) long
LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY CYCLADIC II, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.
Depicted reclining, sculpted with a lyre-shaped head, a slender triangular nose, and a tapering neck, the shoulders sloping, the arms folded right below left beneath small breasts, with a flat abdomen, the upper thighs raised in front at the join to the torso, the legs divided by a deep cleft in the front and a shallow cleft at the back, the spine articulated
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Giovanni Vincitore (John Victor) Ruggiero. (d. 1936), Brooklyn, acquired prior to 1914; thence by descent to his wife, Mabel Markey (d. 1974), Brooklyn; thence by descent to their son, John Joseph Ruggiero, (d. 1973), Queens; thence to his wife, Agnes Dympna McKenna (d. 1986), Queens; thence by descent to the present owner.