Hellenistic Greek Canosan Figure of Eros

Magna Graecia, Apulia, Canosan Hellenistic Period, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A beautiful, well preserved ceramic figure of Eros, depicted here with a chubby, childlike body and two pert wings extended from his shoulders. He wears a headdress of leaves, and is nude aside from that. White pigment is still present over much of the body, as is black pigment on his hair, and red and brilliant blue pigment on the wings. This was the Canosan style - white paint applied directly to buff pottery, with other colors then applied to the white - distinctive from those of other South Italic Greek colonies. Eros was a common Canosan figure associated with funerals and memorializing the dead, and this figure was likely made as a votive to be placed into a tomb. Size: 2.3" W x 3.6" H (5.8 cm x 9.1 cm); 3.9" H (9.9 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Alabama, USA collection; ex-Roy Green collection aquired prior to 2013

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Condition Report: Repaired at wing and neck. These repairs are well done and difficult to see. Top of headdress is lost. Nice deposits on surface with great remaining pigment.