Seated Vinča Figure

Culture: Southeastern Europe

Period: 5500-4500 B.C.

Material: Clay

Dimensions: 6.8 cm high

Price: Sold

Ref: 5180

Provenance: Viennese private collection Dusan Jovanovic (1956-2015), acquired 1970 from Erwin Richter in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. With a provenance confirmation by Erwin Richter. Since then in a family estate.

Condition: Intact

Description: A seated statuette of the Vinča culture with protruding stump arms and a far protruding buttock, which is formed to a rising hump. The head is small and long, the mouth trumpet-shaped. The eyes are punched into the clay. The back of the head is rectangular and flat. The figure is on the sides, on the belly and on the neck abundantly decorated with incisions. At the bottom and on the hump a not very deep perforation. A rare depiction. From the region of Supska-Stublina.