Depicting a dancer in mid-performance wearing a diaphanous chiton, carved in low relief, moving to the left with her hand drawn up to her face
12¹⁵⁄₁₆ in. (32.9 cm.) high

Jack Koert collection, Stockholm.
with Charles Ede Ltd., London, June 2002.

A. Kozloff et al., The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze, Cleveland, 1988, pp. 105-106, fig. 14a.

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Said to be from the Chalcidice in Greece, the relief depicts a veiled dancer, wrapped in layers of fabric. Artists of the Hellenistic period were inspired by the challenge of depicting the natural appearance of things, such as drapery against the human form. Although the body of the dancer is barely visible, there is expression and movement in the folds of the fabric, indicating the action of dancing. For an example in bronze at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, cf. inv. no. 1972.118.95.