Youth Double-Pipes Statuette

Youth Double-Pipes Statuette

Description:

Statuette of a youth playing double-pipes.


Flute player, a youth holding double-pipes to lips; round in section and careless manner. The face is long, with the cheeks inflated with wind. Black paint on wig, eyebrows, and on flutes; the mouth-band is red. Rejoined across the lower drapery. The back is roughly worked. Coarse work, but probably late Rhodian.


Dimensions: Height: 18.80 centimetres


Object Type: statuette


Techniques: painted; lime-washed

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 550 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Kamiros

Accession Number:

1863,0127.4