Bronze beetle | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 750 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium: Bronze, solid cast; body, legs, and base cast separately
Dimensions: 2.7 × 2.25 × 4 cm (1 1/16 × 7/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
base: 1.5 × 3.35 × 2.9 cm(9/16 × 1 5/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903, Fund
Accession Number: 1981.1.2
Culture: Greek, Laconian
Period: Geometric
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

McAlpine Ancient Art, London; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1981.

Bibliography

Matthew M. McCarty, Ancient Bronzes: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, Spring 2006).

Susan B. Matheson, "Ancient Greek Bronzes at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 46, ill.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 260, ill.

"Acquisitions 1981," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 38, no. 3 (Winter 1983): 70.

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Object/Work type

sculpture

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