Circa 1st Millennium BC Standing figure with exaggerated wide hips, thighs, and buttocks - emphasizing her fertility - attenuated arms, relatively long tapering neck, globular head with peaked hair ornament behind hand built of red terracotta with generous areas of white caliche. Custom wood stand. For a similar figure dating to 1200-1000 B.C., see: P. D'Amore, L'Argilla e il Torino, Tecniche e Tipologie vascolari Iraniche dal Periodo del Ferro all'età dell'Impero, Sasanide, Rome, 1999, no. 104. pp. 81-84. For similar see: July 23, 2020, lot 104. Size: L:124mm / W:68mm; 182g Provenance: Private London collection ( B.A); formerly acquired in the 1970s from John Lees collection.