A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE PROTOME
A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE PROTOME

ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK TERRACOTTA FEMALE PROTOME
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Mold made, wearing a stephane and a himation pulled up over the top of her head, her hair arranged in three rows of snail curls, her eyes with thick lids, her thin brows merging with the bridge of her nose, the fleshy lips smiling, wearing disk earrings, a rectangular indentation along her neck, perforated at the top of the head
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Paris, 1970s.
Private Collection, New York, 1997.
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 1997-2004.

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