Cypriot Terracotta Figurine

6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.

3 1/4 in. (4 1/4 in.) (48 grams, 83 mm (69 grams total, 10.9 cm high including stand)).

Modelled in the half-round, the figure wearing a conical hood with open front, detailed facial features and ribbed beard, left arm bent, right arm drawn across the body in the folds of a mantle, vertical border to the left chest; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Julien Gréau (1810–1895) who was an omnivorous French collector with a predilection for antiquities.
Collection of Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), Saint-Nicolas-lez-Arras and Rouen, thence by descent.
with Millon & Associes Auctions, Paris, 6th December 2021, lot 41 [Part].

Accompanied by a copy of Collection J. Gréau, Terres Cuites Grecques, by H. Hoffmann, 1891, where this piece is published.

Published

Collection J. Gréau, Terres Cuites Grecques, Vases Peints et Marbles Antiques, Paris, 1891, p.100-101, no.388, where this piece is drawn.

Literature

Cf. figure in similar pose in the British Museum under accession no.643.7.

CONDITION

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