White Court Art

Description

Ca. 2000 - 1500 BC. A pottery idol of characteristically abstract form depicting a female deity - likely Astarte, the goddess of war and fertility. She stands atop elongated legs with wide hips accentuating her femininity and hands on the belly under her protruding breasts. Her avianesque head presents a beak-like nose and huge annular eyes on either side of a drilled perforation, all crowned by a flared headdress and flanked by large, pinched ears. Size: 142.5mm x 58.7mm Weight: 110g Provenance: Private UK collection previously acquired on the French art market in the 1990s