A large Etruscan terracotta votive statue of a female worshipper
Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.
The elongated hollow figure in the form of a young woman shown with centrally-parted hair falling in ringlets to either side of the face, depicted with large rimmed eyes and full lips, wearing a necklace with pointed pendants, a long tunic, and a stola covering the back of her head and enveloping her body with arm hole apertures projecting from the folds of the drapery, 173cm high注脚Provenance:
Dr and Mrs S. Tarab collection, Geneva.
Property from the Collection of Dr and Mrs S Tarab; Sotheby's, New York, 13 June 2002, lot 113.
Private collection, New Mexico, acquired at the above sale.

Published:
S. Cassani, The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000-300 BC, Swiss Collections, a catalogue of the 1993-1994 exhibition at the Musée Rath, Geneva, and the Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris, Naples, 1993, p. 265, no. 165.

This votive figure would have been intended to represent a wealthy sanctuary worshipper seeking the protection of the associated god. Such figures are normally portrayed holding offerings such as birds or fruit.