Hippopotamus with Aquatic Flower Decoration
This blue faience figurine is in the shape of a walking hippopotamus, although its legs have been removed. The painted black lotus buds and aquatic plants on its back evoke the hippopotamus’s Nile environment. A hippopotamus’s back rising out of the surface of the water evoked...
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Rev. William MacGregor, Tamworth, Staffordshire, by 1898; Sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 26-29 and July 4-6, 1922, no. 261; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, 1922, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_48.401_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/48.401 |
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