A refined portrait of a female Magna Graecia, early 5th century BC; alt. cm 12; A beautiful female head cast with a mould, details delicately incised using a stecca. She wears button earrings and her face is framed by slightly wavy, neatly arranged hair. A fascinating sculpture; the head is similar, in terms of its modelling and stylistic treatment, to votive busts of female gods discovered at the polis of Medma, Magna Graecia, near present day Reggio Calabria. PROVENANCE: Ex ACR Auctions 17 (London, 30 June 2015), lot 15; formerly in a German collection formed in the 1970s.
A refined portrait of a female Magna Graecia, early 5th century BC; alt. cm 12; A beautiful female head cast with a mould, details delicately incised using a stecca. She wears button earrings and her face is framed by slightly wavy, neatly arranged hair. A fascinating sculpture; the head is similar, in terms of its modelling and stylistic treatment, to votive busts of female gods discovered at the polis of Medma, Magna Graecia, near present day Reggio Calabria. PROVENANCE: Ex ACR Auctions 17 (London, 30 June 2015), lot 15; formerly in a German collection formed in the 1970s.
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