Alabastron (perfume bottle) ending in a ram’s head
Culture: Etruscan
Date: 6th century B.C.
Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions:
height: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
max. diameter: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.158
Provenance: sold, Sotheby's, London, April 29, 1963, lot 152 to Arcade Gallery, London; probably with Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1982), New York, by 1976; sold by Nanette Kelekian (1926-), New York, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1982; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Published References
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Ar” (San Antonio, 1995) p. 249, no. 129
Label Text
The perfumes exported from Corinth around the Mediterranean in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. came in distinctive bottles, including ones shaped like animals. This alabastron made in Etruria imitates the buff-colored fabric and painting technique of the Corinthian vases. (Jessica Powers 2008)
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