Danubian Terracotta Figure

An ancient Bronze Age Danubian Culture terracotta abstract woman in a dress with incised scrolling designs enhanced with white lime.

Lower Danube.
Ca. 1500 - 1000 BC.
Height: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm).

The Bronze Age cultures of the lower Danube basin produced a distinctive abstract terracotta figural form that was often placed in graves. The bell-shaped abstract figures represent women with abbreviated heads and limbs in cloth dresses adorned with coiled and spiraled designs.

cf.: M. Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess, (New York, 1989), p. 204-205, fig. 323.
Formerly in a New York private collection.
Inv#: 9628
Guaranteed Authentic

$4,500

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