Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

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A Terracotta Protome of a Goddess, Magna Graecia, circa late 6th Century B.C.

Lot Closed

July 5, 01:13 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a German Private Collection

A Terracotta Protome of a Goddess

Magna Graecia, circa late 6th Century B.C. 


with long upturned nose and finely arched brows, her head surmounted by a stephane.

Height 24.5 cm.

Prof. Dieter Wyss (1923-1994), Würzburg, acquired in New York in the 1980s
by descent to the present owner

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