Property from the Collection of the ♈late Antonin and Christiane Besse
A South Arabian Alabaster Figure of a Woman, Qataban, 3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of the late Antonin and Christiane Bess𓆉e
A South Arabian Alabaster Fig💯ure of a Woman, Qataban
3rd Century B.C./1st Century A.D.
standing with extended forearms and clenched hands, and wearing a long close-fitting tunic, with large pointed-oval eyes ho🐼llowed out for inlay, grooved eyebrows, and long hair.
Height 30.5 cm.
probably from Hayd ibn 'Aqil, the necropo🐠lis of ancient Timna'
Antonin Besse (1927-2016) and Christiane Besse (1928-2021), Aden and Paris, acquire🍸d in Yemen in the 1960s
by descent to the present owner
Published
Christie's, London, December 1⛎6th, 1982, no. 112, illus.
Yémen, Au pays de la reine de Saba (catalogue of the🌸 exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Oct. 2💞5th, 1997, to Feb. 28th, 1998), Paris, 1997, p. 100
Sabina Antonini, La statuaria sudarabica in pietra (Repertorio iconographico sudar🌱abico, I), Paris and Rome, 2🍬001, p. 112 , C111, pl. 63.