An Etruscan Polychrome Terracotta Antefix, circa late 6th Century B.C.

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

An Etruscan Polychrome Terracotta Antefix
Height 10 1/2 in. 26.7 cm.

in the form of the head of a maenad, with long wavy hair, her oval face with slightly smiling mouth and narrow wide-set eyes beneath delicate finely arched eyebrows, and wearing disk earrings and diadem decorated with flowering vines (ivy?), her head surrounded by a nimbus of tongues and flanked by scrolls and palmettes.

Provenance

Galerie Simone de Monbrison, rue Bonaparte, Paris, circa 1980

Catalogue Note

For related archaic examples compare A. Andren, Architectural Terracottas from Etrusco-Italic Temples, Lund and Leipzig, 1940, pl. 88, no. 313 (from Perugia), and pl. 130, no. 455 (from Lanuvium).