Cycladic reclining female figure, name-piece of the Schuster Master, Early Cycladic II, c.2400 BC (marble)

Superbly sculpted, the lyre-shaped head angled backwards, with a prominent aquiline nose and a pointed chin, the crown of the head arching, with flaring "finials" at the corners and a crescent-shaped ridge at the back, the head off-set from the tapering neck by incision, the neck off-set from the body by incision, curved at the front, angled lines at the back that merge with the spine, the broad shoulders slightly arched, the small breasts pointed, the narrow arms folded right below left, gently curving across the swollen abdomen, the angular elbows projecting out from the body, with the left carved at the same level as the right for symmetrical effect, the swollen abdomen indicating pregnancy, the large pubic triangle incised, bisected by the apex of the deep cleft that separates the long legs in front, with a shallow cleft in back that rises up to the horizontal buttock ridge, the knees indented and profiled by incision, the ankles similarly incised, the feet angled down, with concave soles, the toes delineated