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26.01.09
Year: 300 a.C.
Dimension: Heigth 31 cm
Note: Intact, original white, blue and pink slip remaining.
» Euro 5.800,00
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Greek Art - Terracotta female figure
 "Statuetta Tanagrina")
 "Statuetta Tanagrina")
 "Statuetta Tanagrina")
 "Statuetta Tanagrina")
Greek, Hellenistic Period, III century B.C. A terracotta statuette of a female standing on integral circular base, holding a large fan in left hand, wearing chiton and himation wrapped around her, a foliate wreath in her bound hair, her right hand resting on her hip, her hair centrally parted and drawn back into a chignon.
The mould-cast terracotta Tanagra figurines, produced from the later fourth century B.C. , were a specialty of the Boeotian town of Tanagra in Greece where many of them were found for the first time in 1860. The majority of Tanagra figurines depict fashionable women or girls, elegantly wrapped in thin himathia (cloaks), and sometimes wearing broad-brimmed hats and holding wreaths or fans. Previously, in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., terracotta statuettes had been produced in Athens primarily for religious purposes, or as souvenirs of the theatre. In contrast, the entirely new repertoire of Tanagra terracottas was based on an intimate examination of the personal world of mortal women and children, occasionally young men, and other characters, who are believed to have had their origins in the New Comedy of Menander.
Cod. 176/2007
The mould-cast terracotta Tanagra figurines, produced from the later fourth century B.C. , were a specialty of the Boeotian town of Tanagra in Greece where many of them were found for the first time in 1860. The majority of Tanagra figurines depict fashionable women or girls, elegantly wrapped in thin himathia (cloaks), and sometimes wearing broad-brimmed hats and holding wreaths or fans. Previously, in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., terracotta statuettes had been produced in Athens primarily for religious purposes, or as souvenirs of the theatre. In contrast, the entirely new repertoire of Tanagra terracottas was based on an intimate examination of the personal world of mortal women and children, occasionally young men, and other characters, who are believed to have had their origins in the New Comedy of Menander.
Cod. 176/2007
Year: 300 a.C.
Dimension: Heigth 31 cm
Note: Intact, original white, blue and pink slip remaining.
» Euro 5.800,00
Further information
« Show all items of this section