Artworks

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.

Provenance

Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900), acquired June 14, 1893 from ‘Bateman Coll
Sotheby’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 1420

Publications

‘Catalogue of Objects Acquired by General Pitt-Rivers’, 1899-1899, Vol. 7, p.2128, illustrated
Alan S. Walker [ed.], Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part III (Mainz, 1996), no.118, illustrated