LOT 0060

Large Greek Terracotta Figure of a Kore

6TH CENTURY B.C.

22 1/2 in. (6.7 kg total, 57 cm including stand).

Hollow-formed with scaphoid headdress, long hair hanging behind the shoulders, heavy peplos dress extending to the floor with splayed hem and feet visible beneath; left hand held straight at the thigh, right hand in a fist between the breasts; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Swiss private collection, assembled in the 1970s-1980s.
with Galerie Serodine, Ascona, Switzerland, 1993.
Collection of Dr E.N., Zug, acquired in 1995.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12858-241755.

See Brouskari, M., The Acropolis Museum: A Descriptive Catalogue, Athens, 1974, pp.43-44 (Acropole 593), for discussion.

One of the most typical 6th-century B.C. terracotta female figurines was that of a standing or seated woman wearing a chiton tunic and a himation over it. It was a votive figure offered to the shrines or temples, usually representing the goddess Demeter. The headgear, polos, was an element usually identifying the goddess Demeter or her daughter Persephone. Attica was one of the principal centres of figurine production, but Corinth continued to produce solid standing or seated females with moulded fronts and flat backs.