Lot 383
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A TANAGRA STYLE TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY
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A TANAGRA STYLE TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY

AFTER THE ANTIQUE

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A TANAGRA STYLE TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A SEATED LADY
AFTER THE ANTIQUE
Seated on a rocky outcrop with head turned back, her hair arranged in 'melon' coiffure, holding an open mirror on her knee, wearing a chiton with himation draped over her lap, traces of painted decoration, repaired, 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high; another seated terracotta female figure nursing a baby, mounted in a glazed dome, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high; a fragmentary standing female figure with billowing skirt, 4¾ in. (12 cm.) high; a glass vessel with single handle and decorated with spiral trail, 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high, all after the antique; a Greek flattened gold griffin head protome (in two parts), 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high max.; three Hellenistic sheet gold leaf fragments, two with inscription, 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) long max.; and a Roman green glass bowl with rolled rim, on ring foot, 2 in. (5 cm.) high (9)
Provenance
From the collection of Elizabeth, Lady Walston.
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Lot Essay

Item one: for a similar Tanagra style terracotta, cf. G. B. Waywell, The Lever and Hope Sculptures, Berlin, 1986, p. 31, no. 33, pl. 35.2. For the most part these were straight copies of the figurines excavated at Tanagra in Boeotia in the 1870s.

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