Lot 47
SUMERIAN HEAD OF A FEMALE WORSHIPPER
SUMERIA, EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD, 2600 - 2350 B.C.
Auction: 30 November 2022 at 14:00 GMT
£5,292
Description
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
Dimensions
8.8cm high
Provenance
Previously in the Private Collection of Paulette de Boully, France, since at least the 1980s.
Private Collection of Francois Antonovich, (b. 1934), France.
Footnote
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.