A South Italian terracotta hollow female head
Circa 2nd Century B.C.
Probably a votive head, with finely modelled features, the hair centrally parted and drawn back from the face, wearing disc and pyramid earrings and a knotted necklace, the back unmodelled with a circular vent-hole on the top of the head, 6¾in (17.2cm) high, fragmentary, mounted
Circa 2nd Century B.C.
Probably a votive head, with finely modelled features, the hair centrally parted and drawn back from the face, wearing disc and pyramid earrings and a knotted necklace, the back unmodelled with a circular vent-hole on the top of the head, 6¾in (17.2cm) high, fragmentary, mounted
Sold for
£1,920
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Literature:
It has been suggested that this head is an Etrusco-Roman example, probably from Latium where such terracotta votive heads were common.
Provenance:
Acquired by the owner's father in the 1950s on the London Art Market.
Category: Antiquities
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