Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head
Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head

Greek Terracotta Tanagra Female Head

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Hellenistic Period, Ca. 3rd to 2nd Century BC.  This is a small mold-made terracotta head of a woman, characteristic of Greek Hellenistic production of the Tanagra / Tanagrean type. The piece is  fragment at the neck, likely broken from a complete standing draped female figurine.  The head displays the hallmarks of the Tanagra tradition: a softly modeled oval face with small closed-lipped mouth, delicate nose, half-lidded downcast eyes conveying the introspective "melancholic gaze" typical of these figurines, and wavy hair center-parted and drawn back toward a chignon or bun at the nape. The orange-red fabric retains traces of cream/white slip ground and faint pinkish pigment on the flesh areas — consistent with the standard Tanagra polychromy scheme in which the face was painted pale peach and the hair red. A visible seam at the crown indicates bivalve-mold manufacture, the standard coroplastic technique at Tanagra, Boeotia, and regional workshops in Myrina, Smyrna, and South Italy.

Size 3/4 inches (1.9cm) H.; 1-7/8 inches on custom mount.
Provenance: From a New York Artist collection

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