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    Lot 213

    A GREEK TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A GODDESS

    SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.

    Price realised

    USD 20,000

    Estimate

    USD 7,000 - USD 9,000

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    A GREEK TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A GODDESS
    SOUTH ITALIAN, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
    Mold-made, her wavy center-parted hair bound in a fillet, wispy tendrils falling along the forehead, wearing a veil over the top of her head and disk earrings with long tapering pendants, with a spade-shaped forehead, slender nose and lidded eyes beneath modelled brows, her lips parted revealing teeth, a circular exhaust on the back
    10 in. (25.4 cm.) high

    Provenance

    with T. Fujita, 1970s.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    E. Simon, The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Mainz, 1982, no. 151.


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    PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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