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GREEK TERRACOTTA PROTOME OF A GODDESS

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Archaic Greek Terracotta Protome of Goddess: **Originally Listed At $125** Western Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A petite mold-made earthenware protome of a female face, probably a goddess, with a slender visage, prominent

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Archaic Greek Terracotta Protome of a Goddess: Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A mold-formed terracotta protome of a goddess, perhaps Demeter, with exquisite detailing on the lips, eyes, brows, nose, and wavy

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Impressive Greek Terracotta Protome of a Goddess: Western Greece, Magna Graecia, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. An elegant terracotta protome depicting a lovely goddess with well-modeled facial features including a lovely Archaic smile, almon

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Archaic Greek Terracotta Protome of a Goddess: Western Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A pottery bust of a woman - perhaps a goddess - with flowing hair and veil and a realistic, meditative face. The protome is a type of bust m

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Greek Terracotta Protome Bust of a Goddess Ex-Sotheby's: Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 470 to 450 BCE. Doesn't she take your breath away? This beautiful, mold-made terracotta protome bust probably depicts Persephone - queen of the underworld, daughter of Zeus

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Large Greek Terracotta Protome of Circe & Pig: Western Greece, Rhodes, Archaic period, ca. 7th to 5th century BCE. An elegant terracotta protome depicting a lovely goddess, perhaps Circe since she is holding a wand in one hand and a pig in the oth

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Ancient Greek Fine Terracotta Protome Female Head c.5th century BC.: Ancient Greek Fine Terracotta Protome Female Head c.5th century BC. Size 9 1/2 inches high + stand, 5 1/2 inches wide. Fine terracotta head of a female, possibly a goddess, having beautifully molded f

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Huge Greek Archaic Terracotta Protome of Woman: Western Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A pottery bust of a woman - perhaps a goddess - with a dramatic coiffure and a tall, pointed coronet or tiara above a realistic, serious fac

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Western Greek Earthenware Protome of Goddess: **First Time At Auction** Western Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A finely-detailed terracotta protome of a goddess with bulb-shaped locks of hair framing her visage and a large headdress

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Greek Earthenware Protome of Goddess: **Originally Listed At $150** Western Greece, Rhodes, Archaic Period, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A mold-made terracotta protome depicting a female head, presumably a goddess, wearing a himation drawn

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Archaic Greek Protome Bust of a Goddess, ex-Sotheby's: Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 470 to 450 BCE. Doesn't she take your breath away? This beautiful, mold-made terracotta protome bust probably depicts Persephone - queen of the underworld, daughter of Zeus

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Fine Archaic Greek Earthenware Protome of Goddess: Ancient Greece, Archaic, ca. 650 to 480 BCE. A mold-made terracotta protome depicting a female head, wearing a himation drawn up and over her head and round earrings, with a scalloped fringe of bangs

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Western Greek Protome of a Goddess: Western Greece, Rhodes, Archaic period, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A mold-made terracotta protome depicting a female head, wearing a himation drawn up and over her head, with a curly fringe of bangs

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Greek Boeatian Pottery Protome - Demeter: Greece, Boeatian, ca. 6th century BCE. This is a buff terracotta votive offering of a female, mold made, depicting what may be the goddess Demeter or Persephone with a fine smiling mouth, chin, relief

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ANCIENT GREEK TERRACOTTA PROTOME: Greek terracotta protome; wearing a himation and stephane, above a band of curly hair and well-defined features; circa 5th Century B.C.; H: 6"; mounted to metal and cloth framePROVENANCESotheby

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Archaic Greek Terracotta Protome Female Head: Ancient Greece, Archaic, ca. 650 to 480 BCE. A mold-made terracotta protome representing a female head, wearing a himation drawn up and over her head, with a scalloped fringe of bangs and long wavy lo

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Ca. 600-500 BC. A terracotta protome depicting a lovely visage of a goddess with well-modeled facial features wearing a decorative headdress. A protome is a type of bust made by pressing a thin layer of terracotta into a single mold. These were first made in Rhodes, but from the early fifth century BC onwards they spread throughout Greece. Professionally mounted in a frame. For a type, see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 61.11.7.Size: L:155mm / W:120mm ; 750gProvenance: Private British collection of Ancient Art; acquired from I.M. Chait, LA., CA., previously in an old 1980s US collection.