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The Senator William A. Clark (1839-1925) Collection of Greek Terracottas and Pottery (Lots 166-176)
Lot 166*

An East Greek 'plastic' alabastron of a female figure

The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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An East Greek 'plastic' alabastron of a female figure

Circa 550-525 B.C.
17.3cm high

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Provenance:
Raphaël Collin (1850-1916) collection, Paris.
The Senator William A. Clark (1839-1925) Collection, acquired from the above in 1911.
Bequeathed to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1925.
Deaccessioned and gifted to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., 2014.
with Sands of Time Ancient Art, Washington D.C., 2021.

Published:
R. Collin, Collection of Antique Grecian, Egyptian and Etruscan Statuettes, Vases, Tanagras, Etc., Paris, 1911, p. 1, no. 7.
Original Clark Catalog, Part II, p. 234, no. 7.
The Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1928, p. 99, no. 2510 (and in the 1932 edition of the same name).

Exhibited:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 'The William A. Clark Collection,' 26 April-16 July 1978.

For a similar plastic vase see R.A. Higgins, Greek Terracottas, London, 1967, p. 35, pl. 13, D and an example in the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, in Orient und Frühes Griechenland, Basel, 1990, p.103, no. 154.

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