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ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT 5th - 4th centuries BC height cm 23 Molded...
ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA PORTRAIT
5th - 4th centuries BC
height cm 23
Molded votive head of a boy, with prominent facial details and pleasant expression. The head is depicted with full and slightly open lips, almond-shaped eyes characterized by prominent upper lids and arched eyebrows and short hairs, finely incised. Traces of the original color scheme are still preserved. A specimen from the same workshop - head of a woman - was in Sotheby's on 12 June 2001, lot 81.
Provenance. English private collection; acquired in the 1980s in Paris, possibly from the La Reine Margot gallery.