Green Faience Hedgehog Aryballos
Late Dynastic Period, 7th/6th century BC
5cm high
In the form of a hedgehog standing on an oblong base, the cross-hatched body imitating spines and surmounted by a spout with straight angular handle on the back, the head with incised mouth, flat snout, globular eyes, and grooved erect ears, some areas accented with brown spots.
Literature: Related examples are in Princeton (https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/24689) and New York (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/573253).
Provenance: Captain George Fenwick-Owen, United Kingdom acquired in Alexandria in the 1920s; English private collection, by descent from the above; Galerie Chenel, Paris
Exhibited:
Galerie Chenel, Paris, Animal, exh. cat., 2012; Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, The Sculptor’s Menagerie, exh. cat., 2015, no. 2
Enquire
Late Dynastic Period, 7th/6th century BC
5cm high
In the form of a hedgehog standing on an oblong base, the cross-hatched body imitating spines and surmounted by a spout with straight angular handle on the back, the head with incised mouth, flat snout, globular eyes, and grooved erect ears, some areas accented with brown spots.
Literature: Related examples are in Princeton (https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/24689) and New York (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/573253).
Provenance: Captain George Fenwick-Owen, United Kingdom acquired in Alexandria in the 1920s; English private collection, by descent from the above; Galerie Chenel, Paris
Exhibited:
Galerie Chenel, Paris, Animal, exh. cat., 2012; Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, The Sculptor’s Menagerie, exh. cat., 2015, no. 2
Enquire
Late Dynastic Period, 7th/6th century BC
5cm high
In the form of a hedgehog standing on an oblong base, the cross-hatched body imitating spines and surmounted by a spout with straight angular handle on the back, the head with incised mouth, flat snout, globular eyes, and grooved erect ears, some areas accented with brown spots.
Literature: Related examples are in Princeton (https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/24689) and New York (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/573253).
Provenance: Captain George Fenwick-Owen, United Kingdom acquired in Alexandria in the 1920s; English private collection, by descent from the above; Galerie Chenel, Paris
Exhibited:
Galerie Chenel, Paris, Animal, exh. cat., 2012; Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, The Sculptor’s Menagerie, exh. cat., 2015, no. 2