A GREEK TERRACOTTA THEATRE MASK
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
Probably representing a new Comedy courtesan or Hetaira, her mouth open through to the interior, her centre-parted wavy hair bound in a sakkos and tied with a tasseled ribbon at the centre with two berries in between, preserving traces of original pigment
8 3/8 in. (21.4 cm.) high
來源
Private collection, France, 1990s.
Anonymous sale; Tajan, Paris, 29 October 2008, lot 261.
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For related terracotta theatre masks, cf. Ragusi and Cavalier, Il Museo Eoliano di Lipari, Milan. See also M. Bieber, The History of the Greek and Roman Theatre, Princeton, 1939, pp. 194-202.