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FROG-SHAPED EARTHENWARE ARYBALL
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FROG-SHAPED EARTHENWARE ARYBALL
See original version (French)
Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FROG-SHAPED EARTHENWARE ARYBALL
Greek art, Archaic period, circa the mid-6th century BC.
Small zoomorphic aryballe in the shape of a frog, with a spout on its back, a reticulated body, and the eyes and tips of the legs painted brown.
Length: 8.3 cm
Provenance: Private collection, acquired in the 1990s
Christie’s, New York, 9 December 2010: lot 99 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA609)
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, New York, 9 December 2010, lot 99
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 44 and 92
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, 2016, p. 38, fig. 31 and p. 81
A Greek faience frog-shaped aryballos,
Archaic Period, circa mid-6th century BC.
See original version (French)
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