Lot 19
  • 19

A Cypriot Limestone Head of a Kore, circa late 6th Century B.C.

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • A Cypriot Limestone Head of a Kore
  • Limestone
  • Height 6 in. 15.3 cm.
wearing a chiton, concave disk earrings, and high crested stephane, her deeply grooved hair radiating from the crown, parted above the forehead, and falling in a long unworked mass over the back, three wavy tresses escaping onto her left shoulder.

Provenance

Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York
acquired from the above by John M. Harney, St. Louis

Catalogue Note

John Mullanphy Harney (1924-2014) was owner of Warfield’s, an antiques and decorating firm in St. Louis, founded by his grandmother in 1912. His great-grandfather was General William S. Harney, who commanded the Army’s Department of the West at the beginning of the Civil War.