LATE HELLENISTIC, CIRCA 50 B.C./A.D.

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A PAIR OF NEW COMEDY TERRACOTTA MASK ROUNDELS
LATE HELLENISTIC, CIRCA 50 B.C./A.D.
Hollow-moulded, one mask in the form of a slave with hair swept back, exaggerated arched eyebrows and large crescent-shaped mouth, details with remains of white slip; and the other in the form of a youth with high wavy hair swept back from the forehead, three twisted curls falling beside each cheek, each mask in high relief mounted on terracotta roundel
Both 5¾ in. (14.7 cm.) diam. (2)

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拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
T. B. L. Webster, Monuments Illustrating New Comedy, 3rd ed. rev. by J. R. Green and A. Seeberg, London, 1995, 2, p. 382, 4XT10 (item one) and 4XT9 (item two); and J. H. Betts, J. T. Hooker and J. R. Green (eds), Studies in Honour of T. B. L. Webster, 2, Bristol 1988, p. 125, no. 15, pl. 13.17 (item one) and no. 14, pl. 13.16 (item two).

The slave mask is a type borrowed from Old Comedy, cf. M. Bieber, The History of the Greek and Roman Theater, Princeton, 1971, p. 102, fig. 388, for a similar terracotta roundel to item one.