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THBPublished Greek Terracotta Head, Possibly Apollo
Lot 39a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
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
Ancient Greece, possibly Western Greece, Classical period, ca. 470 to 440 BCE. An incredible, hollow-built pottery head of a regal and divine man, possibly a depiction of Apollo, the Greek god of music, medicine, poetry, and light. His veristic countenance is shaped with a slender nose bearing a pointed tip, almond-shaped eyes framed within thick lids and beneath a sweeping brow, full, pouty lips with a delineated philtrum on the top lip, and a thin fillet that gently contains his curved brow wings and centrally parted coiffure. The hollow design of this head suggests it was at one time part of a larger figure, perhaps an effigy meant to be worshipped in a temple or a personal home shrine. Layers of beige-hued slip are visible across the face and hair and allude to the flesh-like tone the artist imbued onto the figure upon its conception. Size: 2.3" W x 3.1" H (5.8 cm x 7.9 cm); 5.8" H (14.7 cm) on included custom stand.
Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Vol. XXVII (2016), no. 59
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-private German collection; ex-Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Germany, December 2007
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#165064This is a fragment of a larger figure as shown, with original body from neck down missing. Softening to some finer facial details, with fading and chipping to beige slip, and heavy encrustations, otherwise intact and excellent. Wonderful preservation to facial details.Condition
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