attributed and are being sold as Cycladic "type" idols with no dates
give and noted that they are most likely antique.
Malter Galleries Inc.
--- In Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com, <ursa_one@...> wrote:
>
> Earl/Nancy (Not sure about that one....),
>
> ---- nancy keefer <kentart@...> wrote:
>
>
> > Ok you asked, Lot 179, at least half of these are made using
> > mostly Islamic, trailed and combed beads with a few later
additions
> > [handles,etc}. I am afraid that a good portion of the others are
also
> > of recent manufacture.
>
> Yerse. As for the two limestone Cycladic Idols, I don't have a lot
of references but Sinclair Hood's "The Home of the Heroes: The Aegean
before the Greeks", p44 "....and marble idols were brought to Crete
from the islands. These idols, much admired in modern times and duly
imitated for the benefit of collectors.....".
>
> Ahem. Not limestone either. Looks like modern day copies pre-1967
(if the publication date of the reference is anything to go by).
>
> Trevor.
>
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