Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art Part I

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Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and Christiane Besse

A South Arabian Alabaster Figure of a Woman, Qataban, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.

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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT

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12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and Christiane Besse

A South Arabian Alabaster Figure of a Woman, Qataban

3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.


standing with extended forearms and clenched hands, and wearing a long close-fitting tunic, with large pointed-oval eyes hollowed out for inlay, grooved eyebrows, and long hair.

Height 30.5 cm.

probably from Hayd ibn 'Aqil, the necropolis of ancient Timna'

Antonin Besse (1927-2016) and Christiane Besse (1928-2021), Aden and Paris, acquired in Yemen in the 1960s

by descent to the present owner


Published

Christie's, London, December 16th, 1982, no. 112, illus.

Yémen, Au pays de la reine de Saba (catalogue of the exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Oct. 25th, 1997, to Feb. 28th, 1998), Paris, 1997, p. 100

Sabina Antonini, La statuaria sudarabica in pietra (Repertorio iconographico sudarabico, I), Paris and Rome, 2001, p. 112 , C111, pl. 63.

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