1935.38.3: Grotesque Head of an "Orator"
Sculpture
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1935.38.3
- Title
- Grotesque Head of an "Orator"
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture, statuette
- Date
- 323-150 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Smyrna (Ionia)
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292078
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Handmade
- Dimensions
- 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1935.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
- Accession Year
- 1935
- Object Number
- 1935.38.3
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Round head with thick, stubby ears, bulbous nose, partially closed eyes, an open mouth drawn down at the left corner and a deeply wrinkled forehead. Figure appears bald, possibly due to a lack or loss of color. Hand modeled.
Hard, light brown caly with very little mica.
Exhibition History
- Coroplast's Art (The): Greek Terracottas of the Hellenistic World, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 09/22/1990 - 12/31/1990; College Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y. College at New Paltz, New Paltz, 02/02/1991 - 03/15/1991; Harvard Art Museum Archives, 05/26/1991 - 07/28/1991
Verification Level
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