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HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA ACTOR AS A CITIZEN GENTLEMAN FROM A COMEDY Wearing mask and animal skin and holding a logobolan; traces of polychromy. Ex collection of Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899) Saint-Nicolas-les-Arras, France; thence by descent. Boeotia, 4th-3rd Century BC H. 6 1/8 in. (11.9 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2010, no. 125 RVZ19 $8,500 Sales |
| The Bellon collection, one of the most important in France, surpassed that of de Clercq and that of Gréau. The terracotta type is a well-known from the early phase of New Comedy. For other examples see: R. Green and Seeberg, Monuments Illustrating New Comedy, under 1AT 12; 1AT 12b (Karlsruhe B 1869)
L. Hjortsø, Græsk Teater (Copenhagen 1980) 48 fig. 34; M. Maaß, Gr. Kunst aus Unteritalien und Sizilien (Karlsruhe 1987) 44 fig. 29; Schürmann 226 no. 823, pl. 139 The height is given as 0.105 m. probably South Italian. 1AT 12c (Hamburg 1917.1054) E. Köhne and C. Ewigleben (eds.), Gladiators and Caesars. The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome, London 2000, 108 no. 121 (colour ill.) Wherever this piece may actually have been made (Athens, Boeotia, or South Italy the type is firmly Attic and it reflects Comedy as performed in Athens in the time of Menander. Wherever this piece may actually have been made (Athens, Boeotia, or South Italy the type is firmly Attic and it reflects Comedy as performed in Athens in the time of Menander. |
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