Terracotta Statuette of a Seated Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011

Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

Period: Hellenistic

Date: late 4th–3rd century B.C.

Culture: Greek, probably Attic

Medium: Terracotta
Fabric: fine reddish orange (5 YR 6/6) with small sparkling inclusions. Slip, paint: white slip, pink paint on face, blue (?) on rocky base. Method of manufacture: moldmade, hollow. Back, venting: back moldmade, rectangular vent in back of seat, open underneath.

Dimensions: H. 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)

Classification: Terracottas

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906

Accession Number: 06.1095

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