Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020

Lot 25

A Hellenistic female head fragment circa 1st century BC pottery

Estimate £100 - £200 | Hammer £280

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Description

A Hellenistic female head fragment

circa 1st century BC

pottery, with remains of a bead edge headdress,

8cm high,

two Hellenistic pottery female heads, with their hair worn in a chignon,

4.7cm and 5.3cm high, a Teotihuacan pottery head fragment, 3.5cm high, all mounted, and

a Roman pottery jug, with an ovoid body, narrow neck and strap handle, 17cm high. (8)

Provenance

Heads - Private Collection, UK; Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, circa 1992; Private Collection, UK.

Roman jug - Thomas Scoular Campbell (c.1880's - 1966) and thence by descent.