Elaborate Headdress of Statuette
400-300 BCE
Description
Elaborate hair radiating outward in small, snake-like locks. Three loops hanging from braided wreath. Traces of red on hair, blue on wreath. Back unmodelled, made in two molds. (Upper row, 2nd from right, in photograph) Hard, reddish brown clay; powdery surface; remains of white slip and Egyptian blue.
Dimensions
5.9 x 7.1 cm (2 5/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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