Name: Auction: CYPRIOT LIMESTONE HEAD OF A GODDESS, LIKELY APHRODITE LATE 5TH - EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 3250 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day One: 18 May 2022 | From 11:00

Day Two: 19 May 2022 | From 11:00

<p><strong>Sale number:</strong> 689&nbsp;<br><br>Our May 2022 edition of&nbsp;Five Centuries&nbsp;featured a superb range of furniture, paintings and works of art.&nbsp;May's edition included select items from the Estate of the Late Col. H.J. Gillman, Property of an Edinburgh Collector, Property of a Lady of Glasgow, Property from the Estate of the Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton and selected items from the Collection of Charles Edward Fox (1796 - 1873). The sale is led by two works by John Atkinson Grimshaw, a pair of George III Marquetry Tables attributed to Thomas Chippendale, a group of 19th Century Meissen, a Louis XVI Aubusson Suite and a selection of Roman Antiquities.&nbsp;</p>

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<div dir="auto">carved limestone, depicted wearing a mural crown<span> with a himation drawn up over the back of the headdress, the hair parted at the centre and drawn across the forehead, soft featured, with large eyes, dainty nose and thin lips, raised on a bespoke mount </span></div>

CYPRIOT LIMESTONE HEAD OF A GODDESS, LIKELY APHRODITE

LATE 5TH - EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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