Female Figurine from a Vessel

3rd century BCE (Hellenistic)

15 cm 45.5 cm 15 cm

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This figure is from a type of vase that occasionally took the form of a female head. South Italian artists frequently applied separately molded figurines to pottery and depicted faces with heavy jaws and prominently lidded eyes.

Artifact

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37784
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Dr. Frederick G. Stern, Potomac, MD, by 1984, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1985, by gift.
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en
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7
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