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The upper part of a votive terracotta figure of a standing woman wearing a flared polos head-dress and large disc earrings. The figure retains traces of a white slip surface with dark red painted details.
Culture
Greek, Boeotian, Thebes, late 6th Century BC
Size
11.8 x 7.7 cms
Condition
Fragment as shown, repaired from four pieces
Provenance
Ex. collection: the painter Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin (1850-1916), Paris, France. Acquired in 1911 from Collin by Senator William A. Clark (1839-1925), USA. Bequeathed by Clark to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in 1925 (accession number 26.645). Gifted to and then deaccessioned by the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., 2014. Several old labels on the back including a label affixed by Rollin.
Published: R. Collin, Collection of Antique Grecian, Egyptian and Etruscan Statuettes, Vases, Tanagras, Etc., Paris, 1911.
The Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1928 (and in the 1932 edition).
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., ‘The William A. Clark Collection,’ 26 April-16 July 1978.
For further information on Rollin and Clarke please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapha%C3%ABl_Collin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clark
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