A Greek Terracotta Figure of a Woman, Attic, Circa Mid 5th Century B.C.

standing on a tall base with the weight on her right leg, holding an oinochoe in her right hand and a phiale in her left hand, and wearing a peplos; rectangular vent hole in back, remains of red and blue decoration over gesso.

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. 62, illus.)
Ariadne Galleries, New York, inv. no. 1570
acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s

Repaired across the feet and base, and possibly some areas of restoration across the base. The nose chipped, the mouth rubbed, a large chip on hair over proper left side of forehead, and a chip on top of the head. The 1990 catalogue photo does not show the added details in red and blue on the front of the torso and the face.
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There are remains of an old collection label on the back.

Cf. S. Mollard-Besques, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue raisonné des figurines et reliefs en terre-cuite grecs, étrusques et romains, vol. I, Paris, 1954, pl. LVI, C10 and C11 and R. A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, vol. I, London, 1954, nos. 673 and 674, pl. 88.