£5,292
Auction: 30 November 2022 at 14:00 GMT
carved calcite, the worshipper with full features, a smiling mouth and recessed oversized eyes, the sweeping brow deeply carved, the hair formed into curls, raised on a bespoke mount
Previously in the Private Collection of Paulette de Boully, France, since at least the 1980s.
Private Collection of Francois Antonovich, (b. 1934), France.
Note:
For a close parallel that sold for 27,400 euro, please see: Christie's, Paris, Archéologie : Collection Pierre et Claude Vérité, 20th December 2011, lot 7.