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Lot 40*

A Greek terracotta figure of a dancer

6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,792 inc. premium

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A Greek terracotta figure of a dancer
Circa 4th Century B.C.
26cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, England, acquired in the 1890s; and thence by inheritance and gift (collector's label on back).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 December 1992, lot 96 ('sold on behalf of a charitable foundation').
with Herbert A. Cahn, Kunst der Antike, Basel (Katalog Nr. 5, Basel, 1993, p. 30, no. 32).
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above on the 10 May 1994.

For similar figures perdorming the so-called Mantle Dance see, R. Higgins, Catalogue of Terracottas in the British Museum, vol. I, London, 1969, pp. 236-237, pls. 127-128, nos. 881, 882, and 884-886. See also, E. Schmidt, Katalog der Antiken Terrakotten: Teil I: Die Figürlichen Terrakotten, Mainz, 1994, p. 68, no. 63, pl. 15.

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