A Greek Terracotta Group of Demeter and Persephone, late 5th/4th Century B.C.

Demeter standing with Persephone sitting on her left shoulder and clasping her daughter's arm, and wearing a chiton with double overfold, and himation; a large vent hole in the back, remains of gesso and red pigment.

Professor Hans Erlenmeyer (1900-1967) and Marie Louise Erlenmeyer, Basel, collected between 1943 and the early 1960s (Sotheby's, London, Antiquities from the Erlenmeyer Collection, July 9th, 1990, no. 80, illus.)
Ariadne Galleries, New York
acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990s

The head of Persephone repaired, with broad ares of restoration along the join, her left foot restored, and her nose chipped. Otherwise as shown.
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Cf. S. Mollard-Besques, Catalogue raisonné des figurines et reliefs en terre-cuite grecs, étrusques et romains, vol. I, Paris, 1954, pl. LXXII, C 98.

Remains of an old label and the number 66 penciled on the back.