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6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance
6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance 6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance 6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance 6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance 6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance 6112. **SOLD**Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance
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Attractive Late Hellenistic terracotta female head: highly detailed provenance.

Delicately formed with an attractive face.
Mounted on old black glazed roundel which has several collection and auction labels stuck on the bottom.
Repaired as seen.
35mm: 66mm overall
From either  Myrina or Smyrna in Asia Minor.
3rd- 2nd century BC
Smyrna was once one of the most illustrious of all ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities. One of the main centers of Greek settlement in western Anatolia, it once had a temple dedicated to Athena and was the residence of the epic poet Homer.  Myrina was a much smaller ancient Greek (Aeolian) city on the western coast of Anatolia

Ex Raphaël Collin collection, Paris. (1850-1916) 
Ex The Senator William A. Clark Collection, acquired from the above in 1911.
Bequeathed to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1925.
Deaccessioned and gifted to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., 2014.
Further deaccessioned and sold onto antiquities market 2021.
Published:
R. Collin, Collection of Antique Grecian, Egyptian and Etruscan Statuettes, Vases, Tanagras, Etc., Paris, 1911, 
The Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1928,
Exhibited:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 'The William A. Clark Collection,' 26 April-16 July 1978.



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