Bidspirit auction | Cypriot Terracotta Standing Musician

Cypriot Terracotta Standing Musician - Circa 5th-4th century B.C. Carved in the round, a figure wearing a floor-length robe and holding a stringed instrument in the crook of his left arm and playing it with his right hand; cascading curls of hair frame the face with a diadem to the brow; underside drilled for insertion of a mounting rod. 1.3 kg, 30 cm (11 7/8 in.). with Bonhams, 26 November 1997, no.276.From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. [No Reserve]