Horse Artist: Unknown

8th century B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

6.9 × 5.4 × 2.1 cm (2 11/16 × 2 1/8 × 13/16 in.)
base: 4.83 × 2.2 × 0.4 cm(1 7/8 × 7/8 × 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Jan Perry Mayer

Accession Number

2001.36.1

Culture

Greek, Corinthian

Period

Geometric

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Christos G. Bastis Collection; Christie's New York 1999, lot 52; Safani Gallery Inc., 1999–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography

  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 202, pl. 187.
  • Matthew M. McCarty, Ancient Bronzes: A Guide to the Yale Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, Spring 2006), 6–7, ill.
  • Susan B. Matheson, "Ancient Greek Bronzes at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 46, ill.
  • "Acquisitions 2001," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2002): 127, ill.
  • Christie's New York, New York, The Christos G. Bastis Collection, sale cat. (December 9, 1999), 67, lot 52.
  • Christos G. Bastis and Emma Swan Hall, Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis (Mainz, Germany: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1987), 170, fig. 83.

Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

sculpture

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