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Standing Woman (modern copy)
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Weight on left side, right leg bent awkwardly. Left hand holding up folds of himation, right hand across chest holding fan. Head inclined slightly left. Large nose. Fluidly-draped himation with many folds gathered at hip. Chiton with heavy pleats. White slip and blue stripe on himation. Thick, small base. Small firing hole.
Traces of cobalt blue and iron oxide red and pink.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Fogg Museum Classical Collection
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Standing Woman (modern copy)
Description:
Weight on left side, right leg bent awkwardly.
Left hand holding up folds of himation, right hand across chest holding fan.
Head inclined slightly left.
Large nose.
Fluidly-draped himation with many folds gathered at hip.
Chiton with heavy pleats.
White slip and blue stripe on himation.
Thick, small base.
Small firing hole.
Traces of cobalt blue and iron oxide red and pink.
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