Tanagra of the Tanagraia Kores, Ancient Greek 25cm Full length alabaster statue, Ancient Greece

The Tanagra figurines

Were a mold-cast type of Greek terracotta figurines produced from the fourth century BC. They were produced in many cities, but named after the Boeotian town of Tanagra, where many were excavated and which has given its name to the whole class. They were coated with a liquid white slip before firing and were sometimes painted later in naturalistic tints with watercolors, such as the famous "Lady in Blue" at the Louvre. Such ones were widely exported around the ancient Greek world and were made in many other Mediterranean sites, including Alexandria, Tarentum in Magna Graecia, Centuripe in Sicily and Myrina in Mysia. Tanagra figures depict real women, in everyday costume, with familiar accessories like hats, wreaths or fans. They are about 10 to 20 centimeters high and some were religious in purpose, but most seem to have been entirely decorative. Given Greek burial customs, they were placed as grave goods in the tombs of their owners. The coraplasters, or sculptors of the models that provided the molds, delighted in revealing the body under the folds of a himation thrown round the shoulders like a cloak and covering the head, over a chiton, and the movements of such drapery in action.  

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