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An Amlash terracotta steatophygous figure

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Amlash terracotta steatophygous figure
Circa early 1st Millennium B.C.
The standing female figure wearing a low headdress with rounded 'button' face, set on an elongated neck, with short extended arms and small breasts, the legs with broad rounded thighs, tapering to small feet with incised toes, 13.5cm high

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Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired prior to 20 August 1973.

For a similarly stylised female figure dating to 1200-1000 B.C., see P. D'Amore, L'Argilla e il Torino, Tecniche e Tipologie vascolari Iraniche dal Periodo del Ferro all'età dell'Impero, Sasanide, Rome, 1999, no. 104.

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