1790-1800
41.8 x 16 x 18.2 cm (16 7/16 x 6 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Comtesse Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paris, sold [through her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris. No. 122]. Carlos G. de Candamo, sold [through Galerie Charpentier, no. 71, 1934]. Therese Kuhn (Mrs. Herbert N.) Straus, New York, NY, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
Red wax, over a clay core, lined with plaster, on green velvet colored base
17th centuryItalianCold-painted funerary ware: molded gray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigment over white gesso gound
1st-2nd century CEChineseElectrotype of gold original; repoussé
19th-20th centuryMycenaeanWalnut
19th-20th centuryFrenchStone
EgyptianMarble
19th centuryAmericanWood
EgyptianBronze, silver inlay
3rd-1st century BCEGreekWood with lacquer and gold-leaf
15th-16th centuryJapaneseThirteen panels of American redwood
20th centuryFrench25 clay timbers
21st centuryMexicanGreek island marble
1st century CEGreek