1919.515: Seated Girl
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1919.515
- Title
- Seated Girl
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Tanagra (Boeotia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292773
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, remains of white slip
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
- 10.2 x 4.7 cm (4 x 1 7/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Mr. & Mrs. William de Forest Thomson; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1919.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William de Forest Thomson
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.515
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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A little girl dressed in a high-belted, short-sleeved chiton, sitting on a stool. Right arm bent and held at waist. Left arm pendant with hand on left thigh. Legs slightly apart with feet resting squarely on ground. Hair is short, curly, parted in the center and holds a wreath. Back is unmodeled and has a large rectangular vent hole. Head was broken off and replaced, may not be original to body. (Far right in photograph)
Fairly hard pink clay; remains of white slip.
Verification Level
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