Incense Burner in the Form of a Female Head
Incense burners in this form were used to burn frankincense. The absence of burn marks on this example indicates that it was probably a burial gift. The maiden is probably the goddess Kore (Persephone) who, with her mother Demeter, was deeply revered in South Italy.
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Sale, Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 13 December 1982, p. 45, lot 173. Dr. Frederick G. Stern, Potomac, MD, by 1984, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, December, 1985, by gift.
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