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Boy holding a comic mask
Greek
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7869
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionSeated boy holds comic mask of Slave from New Comedy on his lap. Wears heavy, round wreath. Red-brown on hair; deep red on flesh; traces of red on mask and chiton; of pearl gray on seat.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Athens: from Kardhitza certainly.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901