Details
Standing with weight on right leg, left leg bent at the knee, with a long chiton and heavy himation wrapped around her body, over her left shoulder and drawn up over her head, her wavy hair drawn back with long tresses falling onto her shoulders, her attributes missing
614 in. (16 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 18 June 1991, lot 108.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 December 1994, lot 74.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 May 1997, lot 81.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 16 May 2002, lot 230.
Literature
J.J. Herrmann Jr.: ‘Demeter-Isis or an Egyptian Demeter’, Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, vol. 114, 1999, p. 87, fig. 23 and p. 116, no. 53.
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