BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA ‘PAPPADES’ FIGURE

BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA ‘PAPPADES’ FIGURE

Solid, hand-made flat body of a female figure with short arms stretched out, long neck and bird-like beaked face, wearing small flaring polos with large voluted curl on her head; dotted, striped and wavy decoration in black all over his figure. Light orange brown clay.

Ex priv. coll. H.M., Canada, acq. 2007 (with statement).
H. 17,4 cm. Chip from the back, otherwise intact.

6th cent. BC, c. 580 – 550 BC

Cf. R.A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the British Museum, London repr.1970, Vol. I, no. 775, pl. 104; Robert A. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Grieken in het Klein, Allard Pierson Museum 1986, no.13