Terracotta Statuette of a Woman

An ancient Hellenistic Greek polychrome terracotta fashionable woman wearing an ankle-length himation, drawn up at her side, showing the pleated lower hem of the floor-length chiton; with pastel mauve pigment over white ground.

Canosa, Apulia, Magna Graecia.

Ca. 3rd century BC.

Height: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm.)

Canosa was a prosperous early Greek colony in Apulia. It became an important commercial center and producer of fine pottery in the Hellenistic Period.

Formerly in a Swiss private collection; subsequently in a New York private collection.

Inv#: 9439

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$12,500