Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector (Lots 9-50)
Lot 31*
A Greek terracotta pinax fragment
23 June – 7 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,376 inc. premium
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A Greek terracotta pinax fragment
South Italy, circa 5th Century B.C.
Decorated in relief with a young seated Kore or woman, probably Persephone, the long hair dressed beneath a fillet, a cockerel presented to the seated figure in the outstretched hand of a now missing facing figure 10cm high
Decorated in relief with a young seated Kore or woman, probably Persephone, the long hair dressed beneath a fillet, a cockerel presented to the seated figure in the outstretched hand of a now missing facing figure 10cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private collection, North America, acquired 1970s-1980s.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London, acquired on the New York art market in 2015.
Private American collection, acquired from the above, 22 April 2016.
A pinax was a votive board, deposited in a santuaries, with cockerels often depicted in association with the cult of Kore-Persephone, both goddess of the Underworld and associated with love after her abduction and marriage to Hades. Young women often deposited pinakes as votive offerings to love and marriage.