Terracotta statuette of a standing woman with a basket and wreath

Greek, Boeotian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171

Weight on left leg, right knee bent. Left arm supports an open casket with legs, from which a fillet is drawn across the waist by the raised right hand (right hand may never have been fully rendered). Peplos is open down right side; hem of knee-length overfold is drawn up toward left. Head type is characteristic of this group - long wide neck with small face, elaborate wig. This wig has four rows of braid above forehead, with coiled plaits over ears. High, wide polos. High, splaying, trapezoidal base.

Terracotta statuette of a standing woman with a basket and wreath, Terracotta, Greek, Boeotian

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