A BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A BOY

3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A BOY
3RD CENTURY B.C.
Wearing a tunic and cloak, with chubby face, holding a knucklebone bag, back lower edge missing, 4.5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) high; a terracotta figure of a standing woman on spool base, her arms hidden under her himation, 9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high; a standing terracotta figure of Aphrodite, naked save for her himation which is draped over her head and which she holds up with her right hand and makes a pouch with her left, on spool base, head repainted, 8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high; another terracotta of Leda and the swan wearing a girdled chiton and holding out her himation, holding the swan in her left hand, with high chignon, on spool base, all early 4th Century B.C., 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high, all with rectangular vents; and a terracotta standing youth in a tunic, his hands wrapped under his himation, possibly 3rd Century B.C., 8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high, all repaired (5)

Lot Essay

Items three and four: cf. R. A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas, I, The British Museum, London, 1970, pl. 123, pp. 230-232, nos. 863-4 and 869. Item five: cf. V. Tatton-Brown, Ancient Cyprus, The British Museum, London, 1987, p. 40, pl. 44 for the type.

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