PRIMARY 🥀STRUCTURES:𒁃 THE RALPH I. GOLDENBERG COLLECTION
A Cycladic Marble Head of a Goddess, circa 2600-2400 B.C.
Lot Closed
July 5, 02:12 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
of D🔯okathismata or Chalandriani variety, of flaring form with🍌 gently convex facial plane and long aquiline nose, a shallow groove at the juncture with the tapering neck.
Height 7 cm.
Galerie Simone De Monbrison, Paris
Ralph I. Goldenberg, London, acquired from the above on July 21s💛t, 1982
then by descent to the present owner
The head and neck ofജ the present sculpture are carved in one plane, and the jaw is delineated with with only an engraved groove running under the chin. For another example of this rare feature in Cycladic sculpture see a figure currently on loan in New York (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, L.2022.38.151, //www.me📖tmuseum.org/art/collection/search/854951).