Greek terracotta head fragment
Greek terracotta head fragment
Greek terracotta head fragment
Greek terracotta head fragment
Greek terracotta head fragment
Greek terracotta head fragment

Greek terracotta head fragment

G308

£400.00

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A head from a large hollow terracotta figure with fine moulded details and applied decoration around the hair.

 Culture 
Greek colonies Sicily, late 5th Century BC

 Size 
9.3 x 8.4 cms

 Condition 
Fragment as shown

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 (deaccession number 26.628). Gifted to and then deaccessioned by the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., 2014.

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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