with Emmanuel de Monbrison, Paris, October 1978. Private collection, Switzerland
Her right ear and headdress now broken away. Traces of cream coloured slip remaining in patches over her face, with colours for her hair, brows and eyes and left earring. Some nicks and scratches overall including scratch to forehead, nick to outside corner of her left eye and some minor wear to tip of nose. Mounted onto metal and perspex tall stand.
Antefixes of this type were often used in the in the eaves of Etruscan buildings, likely a temple.
For a similar example see, E. Macnamara, The Etruscans, p. 32-3, fig. 34, or Musei Vaticani, Antefix in the Form of a Female Head, c. 525 - 500 B.C., cat. 13883.
