Vase fragment with a bird
Place made:Greece, Europe
Culture: Greek
Date: late 7th century B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions:
2 1/16 x 2 3/4 in. (5.3 x 7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Giacomo Medici
Object number: 88.18.2
Provenance: with Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, comtesse de Béarn (1870-1939) by 1939; by inheritance to her nephew, Octave Marie Hubert de Ganay (1888-1974), 1939; by inheritance to his son, Jean-Louis Hubert (1922-2013), 1974; sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, December 5, 1987, lot 142b to Giacomo Medici, Geneva; Giacomo Medici, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1988
Published References
Sotheby's Monaco, 5 December 1987, lot 142b
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 267, no. 177
Label Text
This fragment is an example of the Wild Goat style, a style of pottery produced on the islands of Rhodes and Chios and in Ionia, a coastal region in Asia Minor, in the late 7th and early 6th century B.C. These vases are decorated with rows (or friezes) of animals, most commonly the grazing goats that give the style its name. Floral and geometric motifs occupy the space around the animals. This fragment preserves the head of a bird next to a floral motif. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
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