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Female Protome from a Head-pyxis, Corinthian, 600-595 BC

Archaic female head with wide open eyes, arched eyebrows and carefully painted ears. The skin embellished with a delicate pale ochre engobe.

For an identical head in Berlin, Staatliche Museen (4507) cf. plate no. 7, fig. no 4-6 in: Klaus Wallenstein. Korinthische Plastik des 7. und 6. Jahrhunderts vor Christus. Bonn 1971.

Broken at the neck, chin chipped off.

H. 4.2 cm (1.65 in)
H. with stand 10.6 cm (4.2 in)

Ex German private collection

950 USD