FIGURINE PENDANT IN STEATITE Anatolian art, circa 5th-4th millennium BC This small statuette is a highly stylised representation of a seated anthropomorphic figure, with its arms folded under its chest and its thighs hypertrophied in the tradition of steatopygian goddesses of the period. A hole in the centre of the figurine allows it to be suspended. Length: 2 cm Related bibliography : J-L ZIMMERMANN, Collection de la Fondation Thétis - Développements de l'art grec de la préhistoire à Rome, Geneva, 1987, p.7 and p.119, fig.2 Provenance: According to the collection register: Acquired on 9 October 1988 (Gilles Cohen, at La Reine Margot, Paris) Former Robert Blanchet collection (1921-2009), inventory no. 287 G. Blanchet Collection Anatolian steatite seated figure, Circa 5th-4th millennium B.C.