Tanagra female figure

Hellenistic, circa 3rd century BC

Height: 15.9 cm

Mould-made, standing with her weight on her right leg, her left foot visible beneath her long chiton, a himation wrapped tightly around her shoulders, with her arms raised underneath, her face looking downwards and to the right, her hair arranged in a melon-coiffure with a chignon at the back, preserving traces of white slip. This comes with a thermoluminescence test report from Oxford Authentication confirming its antiquity.

Literature: For similar cf. exhibition catalogue, Tanagra; Mythe et archéologie, Paris, 2003, p. 210, no. 146.

Provenance: Henri Paricaud (1915-1999), Paris, acquired prior to 1984; and thence by descent to the present owner

£7,800