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TERRACOTTA PIG-SHAPED RATTLE
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TERRACOTTA PIG-SHAPED RATTLE
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,200 - €1,800
Voluntary lot
Description
TERRACOTTA PIG-SHAPED RATTLE
Hellenistic art, circa the 3rd century BC.
A figurine of a pig with an elongated snout, large, slightly drooping ears and a corkscrew-shaped tail pressed against its hindquarters. The object, which served as a rattle, would have contained a small bead or stone, now lost.
Restorations.
Length: 14 cm
Provenance: Former Swiss private collection, acquired from Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, 1970s
Christie’s, London, 7 October 2010: lot 234 (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. MMoCA578)
Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, 25 February – 30 April 2016
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, London, 7 October 2010, lot 234
J. Boardman, ‘Greek Art’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 66, fig. 28
C. Dauphin, *Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary*, France, 2014, pp. 8 and 93
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 8, fig. 4 and p. 82
A Hellenistic pottery pig rattle,
Circa 3rd century BC
See original version (French)
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