BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA DOVE

greece, BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA DOVE

Seated upright, leaning on its tail feathers, traces of red paint on beak, gesso all over, partly flaked off.

Ex coll. Jacques Schulman BV, Netherlands, 1981, list 221, no.39
Dim. 10 x 8 cm. Intact

5th cent. BC

Cf. H. Hoffman, Ten Centuries that shaped the West, Greek and Roman Art in Texas collections, Mainz 1970, no. 120; R.A. Higgins, BMC Catalogue of Terracottas 2, London 1959, pl. 90, no. 692