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Lot 1809 - S19 Dr Sylvia Legrain Collection - Wednesday, 20. September 2023, 10.00 AM

ANTEFIX DESIGNED AS THE HEAD OF A WOMAN

Etruscan, probably Sicily, late 6th century B.C.
Polychrome-painted terracotta, with remnants of black paintwork. Female head with archaic smile and curly, wavy hair. On a later stone plinth.
H without plinth 15.5 cm.

Minor chips.

Provenance: Elsa Bloch-Diener, Berne, 18 February 1999.

With a copy of an accompanying letter from Prof. Jucker (Berne, 1 May 1981), in which reference is made to a similar item (depicted in: A. Andrén, Architectural Terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples (1939), pl. 9.29). The antefix on offer is depicted under No. E56 in an inventory by Elsa Bloch-Diener.

CHF 4 000 / 6 000 | (€ 4 120 / 6 190)


Sold for CHF 4 375 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.