Handle with the Head of a Woman

520-510 BCE (Late Archaic)

17 cm 24.5 cm 11.5 cm

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This head decorated a "hydria" (water jug) at the place where the handle attached to the rim. The facial characteristics are typical of Corinthian works, especially the high, prominent brow, long nose, and shallow, curved chin. The delicately etched arrangement of the hair, th...

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17775
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Canessa, Paris and Naples, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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