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Lot 45

An Anatolian marble idol

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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An Anatolian marble idol
Kusura Type, Early Bronze Age II, circa 2700-2300 B.C.
The flattened figure with disc-shaped head on a gently flaring neck, the trapezoidal body with straight shoulders, 10.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
JC Cohn collection.
with Gimpel Fils, London, acquired from the above July 1964.

For a similarly proportioned idol from the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, see J. Thimme, Art and Culture of the Cyclades, Chicago, 1977, p.379 and 556, no. 488.

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