An ancient Hellenistic Canosan Greek polychrome terracotta fashionable woman with a melon coiffure, wearing an ankle length himation, drawn up at her side, showing the pleated lower hem of the floor-length chiton; with pastel mauve pigment over white ground.
Canosa, Apulia, Magna Graecia.
Ca. 3rd century BC.
Canosa was a prosperous early Greek colony in Apulia. It became an important commercial center and producer of fine pottery in the Hellenistic Period.
Formerly in a Swiss private collection; subsequently in a New York private collection.
$15,000
