AN IAPYGIAN TERRACOTTA FEMALE FIGURE

DAUNIAN III, CIRCA 400-300 B.C.

Details

AN IAPYGIAN TERRACOTTA FEMALE FIGURE
DAUNIAN III, CIRCA 400-300 B.C.
Hand-modelled, standing with her hands positioned in front of her hips, wearing an ample dress with applied ornament on her chest, possibly representing fowl, three applied disks on each side of her buttocks, adorned with a beaded necklace and a headdress, her eyes and brows incised, her nose pinched, her abundant long hair falling in two tresses in front, eight tresses gathered in back with pellet curls arranged at the top
6 9/16 in. (16.7 cm.) high

Provenance

European Private Collection, 1968.

Lot Essay

For a similar example now in the Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, see no. 51, p. 109 in Chamay and Courtois, L'art premier des Iapyges, Céramique antique d'Italie méridionale, where the authors note that this type of figure is extremely rare.

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