Lot Essay
For a Greek terracotta of Apollo similarly fabricated without arms or head, see fig. 56 in Bell, "Hellenistic Terracottas of Southern Italy and Sicily" in Uhelnbrock, et al., The Coroplast's Art.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. & MRS. CHARLES W. NEWHALL, III
A GREEK TERRACOTTA ARTEMIS
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
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A GREEK TERRACOTTA ARTEMIS
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Likely an archetype, intended to serve as a positive for making a mold, the goddess clad in a voluminous floor-length peplos, cinched at her shoulders and belted below her breasts, standing with her weight on her left leg, her right knee bent, wearing platform sandals, her toes emerging from beneath the hem, on a high semi-circular plinth, produced without her arms or head, the surfaces of each stump smoothed
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
Likely an archetype, intended to serve as a positive for making a mold, the goddess clad in a voluminous floor-length peplos, cinched at her shoulders and belted below her breasts, standing with her weight on her left leg, her right knee bent, wearing platform sandals, her toes emerging from beneath the hem, on a high semi-circular plinth, produced without her arms or head, the surfaces of each stump smoothed
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
Munich Art Market, 1990s.
Anonymous sale; Gorny & Mosch, 16 June 2004, lot 383.
with Safani Gallery, New York, 2005.
Anonymous sale; Gorny & Mosch, 16 June 2004, lot 383.
with Safani Gallery, New York, 2005.
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