8 in. (20 cm.) high

with Pierre and Claude Vérité, Paris, acquired between 1930-1960.
Archéologie: Collection Pierre et Claude Vérité; Christie's, Paris, 20 December 2011, lot 8 (part lot).

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According to J. Thimme in, Art and Culture of the Cyclades, Chicago and London,1977, p.427, the so-called abstract-schematic idols were produced concurrently to the larger anthropomorphic idols, and would have had separate meanings and functions. Both the violin-shaped idols and the hybrid examples, incorporating anthropomorphic elements such as the V-shaped neckline or the suggestion of the head, were produced during the Early Cycladic I period in the Grotta-Pelos phase, cf. J. Thimme, op. cit. p. 427-428, nos 26-64.