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Tanagra|ˈtænəgrə|
The name of a city of Boeotia in ancient Greece, used attrib. and absol. to designate terra cotta statuettes of the 5th to 3rd centuries b.c. found in the neighbourhood. (See also quot. 1899.)
1878C. Schreiber Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1911) II. 195 M. Grean was resettling some of his Greek (Tanagra) specimens. 1890O. Wilde Pict. Dorian Gray (1891) 112 She had all the delicate grace of that Tanagra figurine that you have in your studio. 1899C. A. Hutton Greek Terracotta Statuettes ii. 17 That aspect of individuality which is the great charm of the Bœotian statuettes from the Tanagra district, and which is so characteristic of them that any specially pretty figure, whatever its provenance, is popularly known as a ‘Tanagra’. 1915V. Horsley in S. Paget Sir V. Horsley (1919) 309 Some wonderful Greek sculptures small scale, and large Tanagras. 1927Glasgow Herald 22 June 10 The style of the Tanagra heads of ancient Greece. 1960R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pott. & Porc. 469/1 Tanagra figures have been much admired..and much faked,—many of the fakes appearing..in the late 1870s and early 1880s not many years after the first discoveries of genuine Tanagra statuettes. 1978‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions ii. xv. 240 Shushila-Bai was as small and exquisite as a Tanagra figurine. |