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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Greek, A Greek terracotta figure of a woman, Boeotia, late 5th century BC

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A Greek terracotta figure of a woman, Boeotia, late 5th century BC
Terracotta
Height: 46 cm
£ 8,500.00
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The woman is shown wearing earrings, a necklace, and a long pleated white-painted chiton with large overfold. The drapery has been drawn up the back of her head to meet...
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The woman is shown wearing earrings, a necklace, and a long pleated white-painted chiton with large overfold. The drapery has been drawn up the back of her head to meet the tall polos she wears atop her elaborate reddish-painted coiffure. She is holding an open casket with a fillet drawn diagonally across her body.

Condition: The figure is repaired from fragments with areas of restoration and repainting at the joins. The base has restoration. There is general surface wear and encrustation. A great deal of the original paint survives.
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Provenance

With Galleria Serodine, Ascona, Switzerland, 1990s Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above 7 August 1999

Literature

Probably depicting Aphrodite: For a closely-related example in Munich, cf. LIMC II, 2, Aphrodite, p. 17, no. 130. Also for a similar Boeotian figure of a woman holding a basket and wreath now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see acc. no. 59.48.23.

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