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THBCanosan Polychrome Terracotta Standing Female Votive
Lot 55
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful and large Hellenistic mold-made pottery statue of a fashionable lady. She stands contrapposto with her hand on her hip and draped in a white himation over a pink and blue chiton. Crowned by a blue and pink wreath, her brown hair is piled atop her head. Her clothes and features are highlighted by extensive white, pink, brown, and blue pigment. Her face is small and delicate, with evidence remaining of painted eyes and brows. These finely molded figures, often highly decorated, rose in popularity during the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. Themes include fashionable women, gods and goddesses, heroic athletes, and mourners. Canosa, or Canosion as it was known then, was a major center of the ceramics and pottery trade when it was a Greek polis. It produced truly unique pottery, completely different in decoration style from earlier and neighboring traditions. The clay is buff, with the decoration applied directly to it without the use of slip. Size: 3" W x 9.75" H (7.6 cm x 24.8 cm)
Female figures like this one played an interesting role in Canosan funerary practices. They were placed into Canosan tombs as replacements for large red-figure kraters from the century before, but first, mourners carried them in funerary processions and kept them present while they carried out rituals at the tomb. Although almost all the statues known from Canosan tombs depict women, they seem to represent goddesses or mourners, rather than the gender of the deceased - in this society, young women played a major role as mourners. The Canosans, like other members of Classical society, believed that the spirits of the dead remained at the tomb and watched over the living. Canosan tombs were re-opened frequently to bury members of the same lineage; hence, these figures were probably reused as well, maintaining the connection between the living and the dead.
This piece has been searched against the Art Loss Register database and has been cleared. The Art Loss Register maintains the world’s largest database of stolen art, collectibles, and antiques.
Provenance: ex-Barakat Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, USA, acquired prior to 2000
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#164620Loss to back of head coiffure. Chips to headdress. Chipping of pigments. Chips to base. Surface abrasions and pitting. Light mineral deposits. Nice preservation of painted details.Condition
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