Greek genre scene of a dog and puppy, Tanagra, c.525-475 BC
Terracotta
Length 12.8cm
6973
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Set on a rectangular base, the charming scene depicts a dog and her puppy lying next to each other. The mother's tail turns to the left, her head is angled slightly to the right, looking down at her offspring. The puppy looks straight ahead, its pose an imitation of its mother’s, with forepaws extended. Under base, black writing says ‘ATHENS, Lwrnc. Dec. 1898’. A second inscription to the reverse of the base, ‘p.2123.
Chips from ears and a fracture at the back of the base repaired, tail of puppy missing. A rare subject.
Chips from ears and a fracture at the back of the base repaired, tail of puppy missing. A rare subject.
Provenance
Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900), acquired June 14, 1893 from ‘Bateman CollSotheby’s Lot 205’, for 15/-.
Illustrated in the catalogue of the Pitt-Rivers collection Vol II, page 947
Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset, UK; deaccessioned 1960s
Leo Mildenberg, Zurich, Switzerland
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA; acquired from Charles Ede 2017, object number 2017-167
Literature
Compare an example at the Louvre, Paris, accession no. CA 1420Publications
‘Catalogue of Objects Acquired by General Pitt-Rivers’, 1899-1899, Vol. 7, p.2128, illustratedAlan S. Walker [ed.], Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part III (Mainz, 1996), no.118, illustrated
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