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Greek Mask-Applique made of terracotta representing a male head.
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Greek Mask-Applique from the 5th century B.C. representing a male head.
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Greek Mask-Applique made of terracotta representing a male head.
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This small, beautiful object is composed of two elements: a parallelepiped that serves as a base for two statuettes of young bulls, whose bodies are merged together and placed head to toe.
Carved from two fragments of dark green stone mottled with light patches (steatite probably), these two objects represent animals with highly stylized and abstract shapes.
This male head is cut straight under the neck. It is hollow and would have been molded in a bivalve mold. The face shows the exaggerated and archetypal features of the Greek-Roman images known as “grotesque”.
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