1920.44.106: Flying Eros
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.106
- Title
- Flying Eros
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- Probably 19th century
- Period
- Modern
- Culture
- Unidentified culture
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292402
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta, traces of paint
- Dimensions
- H. 14.3 x W. 11 cm (5 5/8 x 4 5/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.106
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Traces of red, purple, gold, yellow, and blue pigments.
Publication History
- Echoes from Mount Olympus: The Minor Arts of Classical Antiquity, exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA, 1974), pp. 104, 107, 111, cat. no. 70
Exhibition History
- Echoes from Mount Olympus: The Minor Arts of Classical Antiquity, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley
Verification Level
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