GREEK HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA SACRED YOUNG BULL PROTOME

**First Time At Auction** Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A fine pair of terracotta hand-made bull figures, both standing upon 4 straight legs and displaying slender bodies with humpe

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic, from Tarantine, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. Three terracotta wall reliefs depicting Europa slaying the Bull (Zeus) - a favorite theme from Classical mythology - most likel

Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful and still bright example of a mold-made terracotta figure, depicting a standing young woman of fashion. She wears a

**Originally Listed At $500** Magna Graecia, South Italic colonies, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A hollow-molded terracotta standing female, perhaps a young girl, wearing a

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. early 3rd century BCE. A beautiful, hollow mold-formed terracotta standing votive figure depicting a young woman with her weight on her right leg, wearing a chiton and

Greek, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd century BCE. Wonderful, large, and important! A beautiful terracotta standing youth, in the style of Centuripe, stepping forward as if alighting. His head is turned

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. late 4th to 2nd century BCE. A fascinating mold-made head of a horse, once part of a larger statue. The head is sleek and thin, with flaring, wide nostrils, a slightly

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. An elegant, mold-formed terracotta bust of a sizable form depicting a dignified woman gazing forward with heavy-lidded eyes. Her stately counten

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

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

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

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A beautiful pottery protome of a bull, with fine details of horns, fur, and even the wrinkles of flesh around the nose and neck. A protome is a type

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. late 4th to 2nd century CE. A gorgeous mold-made figure of the goddess Fortuna standing on a chariot. She raises her himation with both hands, inside which at her waist

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th century to 2nd century CE. A pair of fascinating mold-made ceramic plaques, each one featuring a dramatic image of a sphinx. She is depicted in profile with he

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. late 4th to 2nd century BCE. A beautiful votive statue of a sphinx with a Classically-styled woman's face and upper body. She sits upright on her back haunches, with he

Ca. 3rd century BC.A finely modelled sand-coloured terracotta head fragment of a female figure, depicted with a serene facial expression and a heavy fillet around the head. Mounted on a custom-made st

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. An attractive, mold-formed terracotta bust of a female, perhaps a goddess, with an elegant presentation. Her serene visage exhibits almond-shape

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

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A beautiful and skillfully mold-made pottery protome of a bull, naturalistically modeled with upward curving horns, projecting ears, heavy lidded eye

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 1st century CE. A hollow-molded terracotta votive figure of a standing woman balancing a water-pouring vessel known as a hydria on her head. The elegant female w

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. A fine, hollow-cast terracotta statue of an elegant female, perhaps a goddess, standing in a flowing himation with her right leg extended. She h

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&#3

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

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. An attractive, hollow-molded terracotta figure of a youth standing atop a squat, spool-shaped pedestal. The fi