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Lot 69*

A Cycladic marble head

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Cycladic marble head
Kapsala variety, Early Cycladic II, circa 2700-2600 B.C.
The lyre-shaped head tilted upwards, with pointed chin and straight nose, on an elongated neck, 7.6cm high

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Provenance:
with John Ristow Curiosities, Marin County, California.
Dr Zack Haddad collection, California, purchased from the above in 2000; and thence by descent to the present owner.

For a similar example with pointed chin and elongated neck, see J. Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millennium B.C., Chicago, 1977, p. 459, no. 128.

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