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Barber cutting a man's hair

Greek
Late Archaic or Early Classical Period
about 500–475 BC
Place of Manufacture: Greece, Boiotia, Tanagra

Medium/Technique Terracotta
Dimensions Height: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession Number01.7784
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionTwo bearded men wearing chitons. One, a barber, cuts the hair of the seated man. The flesh of both men is dark red. The chitons appear to have been white and the stool, yellow. The base of the group was once white with red paint along the edge.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren; purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901