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Royal Athena - Art of the Ancient World - Vol. XXIV

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61 GREEK TERRACOTTA APHRODITE standing on an integral base, with drapery around her hips, the folds clasped in her left hand, her right resting on the bearded head of a herm at her right leg, wearing a wreath in her centrally parted hair with tresses falling at the neck; signed on the reverse in Greek. Probably from Myrina, 3rd Century BC. H. 12 1/2 in. (32.3 cm.) Ex private collection, formed in the 1970s in Northern England. For other terracottas from Myrina with Aphrodite and a herm, cf. L. Burn, R. Higgins, H.B. Walters, D.M. Bailey, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, vols. I-IV, London, 1903, nos. 2276 & 2291. 62 GREEK TERRACOTTA APHRODITE with drapery at her hips, wearing a wreath, her left arm resting on a herm; some polychrome slip remaining. 4th Century BC. H. 10 in. (25.5 cm.) Ex private collection, Ascona, Switzerland; Harold Strickland collection, Vero Beach, Florida, acquired in 1997. 63 HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA LADY OF FASHION, standing, a fragmentary fan in her right hand. She wears a long chiton, her himation falling from her shoulders and over her arms and back; the hair is arranged in a wide chignon at the nape of her neck. 3rd Century BC. H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.) Ex collection of David Garfield; collection of Edward D. Freis, acquired at Sotheby’s, New York, December 1992.

64 ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA VOTIVE HEAD OF A YOUTH, near life-size, his face is framed with hand-worked curls. Ca. 3rd Century BC. H. 10 in. (25.5 cm.) Ex American collection, acquired in New York before 1970.

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