Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 3
An Amlash terracotta steatophygous figure
3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,562.50 inc. premium
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An Amlash terracotta steatophygous figure
Circa early 1st Millennium B.C.
Modelled with a curved headdress above the spherical face, standing with short arms extended, with small applied breasts, broad hips and tapering legs, the toes incised, 18cm high
Circa early 1st Millennium B.C.
Modelled with a curved headdress above the spherical face, standing with short arms extended, with small applied breasts, broad hips and tapering legs, the toes incised, 18cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
James Bomford (1896-1979) collection, UK, acquired in the 1960s at Sotheby's, London.
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired from the above on 25 November 1971.
For another stylised female figure with short arms and broad thighs cf. T. Kawami, Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur Sackler Collection, New York, 1992, p.156, no. 59. The author suggests that these round-headed featureless figures may have come from tombs.