BOEOTIAN POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA LADY

BOEOTIAN POLYCHROME TERRACOTTA LADY

Standing and wearing large veiled polos over her extensive curly hair dressed up in four layers, with wreath on topl; clad in girdled peplos, holding a casket with open lid in her left hand, from which emerges a fillet, holding the other end of the fillet in her right arm by her side

Ex priv. coll. Wagelaar, Bergen, Netherlands, 1990s – 2000s
H. 36,5cm. Intact. Mounted. Traces of red paint in her curls.

5th cent. BC

Cf. R.A. Higgins, Terracottas of the Britisch Museum, 1969, no. 851, pl. 119

 5.500