A Greek Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, Boeotian, circa mid 6th Century B.C.

seated leaning back on a broad rectangular stool, and wearing a long embroidered dress decorated with zigzag lines, necklace with pomegranate pendant, and low polos with large volute in front, her applied tripartite coiffure falling onto the shoulders and the nape of the neck, the details painted in black and red.

Professor Hans Erlenmeyer (1900-1967) and Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, Basel, collected between 1943 and the early 1960s (Sotheby's, London, Antiquities from the Erlenmeyer Collection, July 9th, 1990, no. 49, illus.)
Ariadne Galleries, New York, inv. no. 1566
acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s

Body reattached to chair. Fluoresces evenly under UV light, possibly because it has been covered with a clear lacquer.
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Cf. R. A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, vol. I, London, 1954, pp. 205-206, no. 767, pl. 101.