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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1995.1135
Title
Female Figure, Chalandriani Type
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
statuette, sculpture
Date
c. 2300-2200 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Cyclades
Period
Cycladic period, Early
Culture
Cycladic
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293410

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Professor Nelson Goodman, Weston, MA, (by 1969-1995), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums.

Note: Professor Goodman was a philosophy professor at Harvard from 1968-1977.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Nelson Goodman
Accession Year
1995
Object Number
1995.1135
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Patricia Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA, 1987), p.227, no. 69

Exhibition History

  • Art and Culture of the Cycladic Islands in the Third Millenium B.C., Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Schloss, 06/18/1976 - 10/10/1976
  • Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 11/09/1987 - 01/10/1988; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 02/13/1988 - 05/15/1988; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 06/25/1988 - 09/25/1988
  • Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/22/2007 - 01/20/2008

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Verification Level

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