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| HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA COMIC ACTOR (PHLYAX) DEPICTING A SLAVE Who has taken refuge on an altar (after presumably misbehaving. He wears a short tunic; traces of polychromy. Ex collection of Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899) Saint-Nicolas-les-Arras, France; thence by descent. The Bellon collection, one of the most important in France, surpassed that of de Clercq and that of Gréau; a number of which appeared in the famous exhibition in Trocadéro in 1878, then in Rouen in 1884. In his work "Terres cuites grecques photographiées d'après les originaux des collections privées de France et des musées d'Athènes", A. Cartault reproduced several. After his death in May of 1899, his son Paul (1844-1928), anxious to perpetuate the memory of his father, continued enriching this collection and finally building in Saint-Nicolas-les-Arras a museum which was unfortunately destroyed during the bombings of 1914-1915. Boeotia, 4th-3rd Century BC H. 3 1/4 in. (8 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2010, no. 126 RVZ20 $6,500 Sales |
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