Terracotta figure of Baubo, Ptolemaic period, 1st-2nd century A.D.

The squatting figure depicted nude save for a large and elaborate garland in her hair, her legs akimbo with knees bent, her right hand touching her genitals, her left hand holding an oversized olisbos (dildo)

Provenance
Collection Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000), Paris
Private collection S. N., Switzerland, acquired from the above in 1976

Literature
For a similar piece cf. Bonhams London, Antiquities, 3 July 2019, lot 247