LOT 315 Western Asiatic Bactrian Two-Piece Idol
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Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC. A carved chlorite two-part figurine comprising: a carefully modelled limestone head with fine features, youthful and rounded; a seated or kneeling body with arms on the lap, clad in a kaunakes thick cloak of woollen tufts represented by long triangular panels. See Daems, A. The Iconography of Pre-Islamic Women in Iran, in Iranica Antiqua, vol. XCXXVI (2001); and cf. Caubet, A. & Bernus-Taylor, M. The Louvre - Near Eastern Antiquities, London, 1991, p.50. 620 grams total, 10.1cm (4"). From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s.
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