1916.337: Seated Girl
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.337
- Title
- Seated Girl
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Asia Minor
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292950
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, traces of white slip
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
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11.3 x 8 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Base: 7.2 x 6.9 cm (2 13/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Edward P. Bliss; bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1916.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Edward P. Bliss
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.337
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Smiling girl seated on a rock, legs spread and planted firmly on the ground. She is wearing a high belted chiton and himation. Melon type coiffure, flat, square plinth, with an irregular square vent hole on the sparsely modeled back. (Left-hand figure in photograph).
Hard, pale brown clay; traces of white slip and blue pigment.
Verification Level
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