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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.262
Title
Askos in shape of a Duck
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
2100-1500 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Cyprus
Period
Bronze Age, Middle
Culture
Cypriot
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/291146

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Terracotta; buff slip, brown glaze.
Dimensions
H. 17 x diam. 19 cm (6 11/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.262
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
High-standing bird with ridged back, fan-shaped tail, small neck and head. Loop handle and neck with flaring rim at center of back. Bird stands on two feet with rounded bottoms and rocks slightly back and forth.

Publication History

  • Joseph Clark Hoppin and Albert Gallatin, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, U.S.A.: volume 1, Hoppin and Gallatin Collections, Libraire Ancienne Edouard Champion (Paris, 1926)
  • Fogg Art Museum, The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities, A Special Exhibition, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1961), p. 8, no. 13
  • Susan Langdon, ed., From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer, exh. cat., University of Missouri Press (Columbia, MO, 1993), p. 180-82, no. 68.

Exhibition History

  • The David Moore Robinson Bequest of Classical Art and Antiquities: A Special Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 05/01/1961 - 09/20/1961
  • From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, 10/09/1993 - 12/05/1993; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, 01/19/1994 - 03/20/1994; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/22/1994 - 06/19/1994

Verification Level

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