RHODES, ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE PROTOME
RHODES, ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

with Antiqua, Woodland Hills, 1997 (Catalogue V, no. A23).
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 4 June 1999, lot 6.
with Cahn, Basel.
Dr. Anton Pestalozzi (1915-2007), Zurich, acquired from the above, 1999; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

I. Jucker, ed., Skulpturen der Antiken-Sammlung Ennetwies, Mainz am Rhein, 2006, Band 2, pp. 12-14, no. 1, pls. 1-2.
Arachne Online Database no. 1141375.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

This mold-made protome depicts a female wearing a stephane and a headcloth, and a pair of hoop earrings with beaded drops. For similar examples in the British Museum, see nos. 134-135 in R.A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

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