Two Greek Terracotta Figurines, circa 13th/6th Century B.C.

comprising a Mycenaean figure of a bull or ox with inward-curving horns and tail, decorated in black with wavy lines on the body and straight bands on the head and legs, and a Boeotian figure of a goddess with diminutive arms and elongated neck, and wearing a long peplos flaring at the feet and decorated on the overfold with a band of latticework, her applied tripartite coiffure falling onto the shoulders and the nape of the neck and surmounted by a low polos with volute in front, voluted curls escaping below the temples, the details painted in black.

Matthias Komor, New York
Harry Mathews, New York, acquired by his father from the above in the early 1960s

The bull is repaired from 6 fragments with some small fills along the break-lines, and a small area of restoration at the foot of the proper left foreleg. The goddess has a restored proper right arm and an area of fill at the bottom of the drapery in front; there is a neat repair across the neck and the paint is worn in areas.
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