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Dog
Early Aegean, Helladic
Bronze Age, Late Helladic III B-C Period
about 13th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
6.3 x 4.5 x 10.4 cm (2 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herbert Cahn and André Emmerich
Accession Number65.1339
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionRecumbent dog with tasseled tail curled over back. Coarse dark buff clay, red-orange matt paint. Lower part unsmoothed; thumbprints; firing pocks and dents on upper surface. Stripes of paint on muzzle, front and hind paws, flanks and tail; mane indicated with vertical wavy lines and compartmental, spotted "collar" across shoulders. Minor chips.
ProvenanceBy 1962: with Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Malzgasse 25, Basel, Switzerland (Sonderliste E, p. 3, no. 4); by 1965: owned jointly by Herbert Cahn, Münzen und Medaillen, and André Emmerich Gallery Inc., 41 East 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10022 (Early Art in Greece, pp. 27-28, no. 73); gift of Herbert Cahn and André Emmerich to MFA, November 10, 1965.