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73 - FROG-SHAPED EMAILED ARYBALLOS
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FROG-SHAPED EMAILED ARYBALLOS Greek art, Archaic period, circa the mid-6th century B.C. Small zoomorphic aryballe in the shape of a frog with a spout on its back; the body is reticulated, and the eyes and tips of the legs are painted brown. Length: 8.3 cm Provenance: Private collection, acquired in the 1990s Christie’s, New York, December 9, 2010: Lot 99 (ill.) Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA609) Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, New York, December 9, 2010, lot 99 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 44 and 92 C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, 2016, p. 38, fig. 31, and p. 81 A Greek faience frog-shaped aryballos, Archaic Period, circa mid-6th century B.C.
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