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    27 October 2009

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    • A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD
    Lot 169

    A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD PROTOME

    MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.

    Price realised

    GBP 1,000

    Estimate

    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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    A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE HEAD PROTOME
    MID-5TH CENTURY B.C.
    With centrally parted wavy hair, wearing stephane and disc earrings; and a Phoenician terracotta female head wearing large stephane with double central disc, and large semicircular earrings, 5th Century B.C., with mount
    4¾ in. (12 cm.) and 4 in. (10.2 cm.) high respectively (2)

    Provenance

    Item one: collection of Wilhelm Horn (1870-1959), Berlin, purchased in Palermo, 1935; sold Christie's London, 11 December 1987, lot 158.
    Item two: American private collection; acquired from Faustus Ancient Art Ltd, London, 1998.

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    Lot Essay

    PUBLISHED AND EXHIBITED:
    Item one: Antiken aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, Rheinischen Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1973, p. 172, pl. 113, no. 251.

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    VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium


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