An Etruscan terracotta antefix with polychrome decoration
Circa 6th-5th Century B.C.
The arching concave antefix modelled in the form of a female head, with deeply-lidded eyes and full lips, wearing earrings and a diadem over her long wavy hair, surrounded by scrolls and four palmettes, details in added black, white, blue and red, 24.5cm high 注脚Provenance:
Private collection, New Mexico, acquired prior to 1991.

There is a similarly colourful, ornamental Etruscan female-headed antefix in the British Museum, London, acc. no. 1893,0628.3.