A Greek Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, Boeotian, circa mid 5th Century B.C.

enthroned with her feet resting on a footstool, holding her left hand to her breast, and wearing a peplos and himation falling from her left shoulder, her centrally parted wavy hair falling in long plaits over the shoulders; remains of red pigment 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. 68, illus.)
Ariadne Galleries, New York, inv. no. 1568
acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s

Surface worn and incrusted. Minor chips around the bottom of the chair and footstool.
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There are remains of two old collection labels on the back.