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Auction archive: Lot number 307

A GREEK TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY FIGURE OF A YOUNG BOY

Auction 20.10.1999
20 Oct 1999
Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$994 - US$1,491
Price realised:
£1,265
ca. US$2,096
Auction archive: Lot number 307

A GREEK TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY FIGURE OF A YOUNG BOY

Auction 20.10.1999
20 Oct 1999
Estimate
£600 - £900
ca. US$994 - US$1,491
Price realised:
£1,265
ca. US$2,096
Beschreibung:

A GREEK TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY FIGURE OF A YOUNG BOY 3RD CENTURY B.C. The standing figure carrying a bag of knucklebones in each hand, wearing a short tunic with cloak, thick wreath in his hair, lower legs missing, mounted, 4 in. (10.2 cm.) high; a fragmentary young boy, naked, wearing wreath in his curly hair, 3.3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high; the upper part of a female figure wrapped tightly in her himation, her hair dressed in 'melon' style with stephane, mounted, 3 in. (9.5 cm.) high; a female terracotta head, with hair parted and falling on shoulders, wearing polos, mounted, 3.7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high; an erotic terracotta dyad, showing dwarf with extended phallus clasping a naked figure, 3 in. (8.2 cm.) high, all 4th Century B.C.; a young boy playing the pan pipes, naked and crouched in seated position, wearing wreath, on integral circular base, 3 in. (7.5 cm.) high; a Romano-Egyptian grotesque terracotta head, with large nose and exaggerated features, wavy hair, 3 in. (9 cm.) high; a similar bearded Seilenos head, 1st Century B.C./A.D., 2 in. (5.8 cm.) high; a Tarantine fragmentary head of a female, 5th Century B.C., 3 in. (9.5 cm.) high; and eight other terracotta heads including a face mould (17)

Auction archive: Lot number 307
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A GREEK TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY FIGURE OF A YOUNG BOY 3RD CENTURY B.C. The standing figure carrying a bag of knucklebones in each hand, wearing a short tunic with cloak, thick wreath in his hair, lower legs missing, mounted, 4 in. (10.2 cm.) high; a fragmentary young boy, naked, wearing wreath in his curly hair, 3.3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) high; the upper part of a female figure wrapped tightly in her himation, her hair dressed in 'melon' style with stephane, mounted, 3 in. (9.5 cm.) high; a female terracotta head, with hair parted and falling on shoulders, wearing polos, mounted, 3.7/8 in. (9.9 cm.) high; an erotic terracotta dyad, showing dwarf with extended phallus clasping a naked figure, 3 in. (8.2 cm.) high, all 4th Century B.C.; a young boy playing the pan pipes, naked and crouched in seated position, wearing wreath, on integral circular base, 3 in. (7.5 cm.) high; a Romano-Egyptian grotesque terracotta head, with large nose and exaggerated features, wavy hair, 3 in. (9 cm.) high; a similar bearded Seilenos head, 1st Century B.C./A.D., 2 in. (5.8 cm.) high; a Tarantine fragmentary head of a female, 5th Century B.C., 3 in. (9.5 cm.) high; and eight other terracotta heads including a face mould (17)

Auction archive: Lot number 307
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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