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A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A SEATED MOTHER GODDESS, MATURE HARAPPAN
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2023年03月09日 开拍
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A TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A SEATED MOTHER GODDESS, MATURE HARAPPAN
Scientific Analysis Report: A thermoluminescence sample analysis has been conducted by Arcadia, Tecnologie Per I Beni Culturali, Milan, dated 7 May 2014, reference no. 273D. The result is consistent with the suggested period of manufacture. A copy of the thermoluminescence analysis report accompanies this lot. A copy of a certificate of authenticity, dated to 1998 and issued by La Balaustra Antichita (Giuliana Zanetti) is also accompanying this lot.

Indus Valley Civilization, c. 2500 BC. Finely potted, the deity in a seated pose with bent knees, the arms lowered and extended forward below her voluptuous breasts, the face with neatly incised elongated eyes below gently arched brows, the ovoid head with small pierced ears.

Provenance: Bruno Cooper, Norwich, United Kingdom, 2010. Paolo Bertuzzi, acquired from the above. A copy of the original invoice from Bruno Cooper, dated 4 December 2010, dating the piece to the 2nd millennium BC, and stating a purchase price of EUR 3,800 or approx. EUR 5,000 (adjusted for inflation at the time of writing), accompanies this lot. Paolo Bertuzzi (1943-2022) was a fashion stylist from Bologna, Italy, and the son of Enrichetta Bertuzzi, founder of Hettabretz, a noted Italian fashion company with customers such as the Rothschild family, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Paolo Bertuzzi later took over his mother’s business and designed exclusive pieces, some of which were exhibited in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA. He was also an avid collector of antiques for more than 60 years. His collection includes both archaic and contemporary art, and he edited two important books about Asian art, Goa Made - An Archaeological Discovery, about a large-scale archaeological project carried out with the Italian and Indonesian governments, and Majapahit, Masterpieces from a Forgotten Kingdom.
Condition: Excellent condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, small losses, minor nicks, light scratches, some hairline cracks, small chips, minor old repairs and fills, encrustations, signs of weathering and erosion, the back with a shallow hole from sample-taking.

Weight: 123.7 g
Dimensions: Height 15.5 cm

The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age culture in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BC to 1300 BC, and in its mature form 2600 BC to 1900 BC. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilizations of the Near East and South Asia, and of the three, the most widespread. Its sites spanned an area from northeast Afghanistan and much of Pakistan to western and northwestern India. The civilization flourished both in the alluvial plain of the Indus River, which flows through the length of Pakistan, and along a system of perennial monsoon-fed rivers that once coursed in the vicinity of the Ghaggar-Hakra, a seasonal river in northwest India and eastern Pakistan. The cities of the ancient Indus were noted for their urban planning, baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, clusters of large non-residential buildings, and techniques of handicraft and metallurgy. Both Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa likely grew to a size of 30,000 and 60,000 individuals, and the civilization may have contained between one and five million total population during its florescence. It is also known as the Harappan civilization, after its type site Harappa, the first to be excavated early in the 20th century in what was then the Punjab province of British India and is now Punjab, Pakistan. The discovery of Harappa and soon afterwards Mohenjo-Daro was the culmination of work that had begun after the founding of the Archaeological Survey of India in the British Raj in 1861. There were earlier and later cultures called Early Harappan and Late Harappan in the same area. The early Harappan cultures were populated by Neolithic civilizations, the earliest and best-known of which is Mehrgarh in Balochistan, Pakistan. Harappan civilization is sometimes called Mature Harappan to distinguish it from the earlier cultures.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related terracotta figure of a seated mother goddess, 13.3 cm high, dated ca. 3000-2500 BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2001.305. Compare a related limestone or lime plaster head, 4.57 cm high, dated ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BC, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1988.81.1.

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