- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1919.520
- Title
- Standing Woman Holding at Swath of Fabric
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- 425-375 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Boeotia
- Period
- Classical period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292679
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Terracotta, remains of white slip, traces of paint
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 33 x 11.2 cm (13 x 4 7/16 in.)
Base: 9 x 6.5 cm (3 9/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Mr. & Mrs. William de Forest Thomson; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1919.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William de Forest Thomson
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.520
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Wearing peplos falling over waist band in graduated folds; upper part plain, skirt falling in small folds. Right arm pendant, left arm raised and bent. Broad fillet held obliquely in front. Bent right leg drawn forward. Small face resting on long neck. Elaborate headdress surmounted by high, plain stephane. High rectangular plinth.
Traces of red on hair, neck, dress, base. Very large rectangular venthole. Bottom open. Piece missing from back of base. Head reinforced with plaster. Base repaired.
Hard, pale yellowish-brown clay; powdery surface; remains of white slip; traces of iron oxide red.
- Publication History
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[Reproduction Only], Persephone, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2011, p. 69.
- Related Works
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