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Lot 20
Sale 623 - Worldly Pursuits:Estate of Steve & Peggy Fossett
Oct 30, 2018
9:59AM
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Estimate
$15,000 -
20,000
Price Realized
$12,750
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Lot Description
An Etruscan Terra Cotta Antefix
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.E.
in the form of a head of a woman, perhaps a maenad, with incised wavy hair, her oval face with upturned lips and wide eyes with large dark pupils beneath finely arched eyebrows, her diadem with dotted zigzag surmounted by the edging of her twisted veil terminating in scrolling at each side, her head enclosed below a broad nimbus of radiating tongues interspersed with bosses at their tips, extensive red, black and white pigment throughout.
Length 10 1/8 inches.

