Alabastron in the Form of a Dead Hare

second half 6th century BCE (Archaic)

5.3 cm 12.7 cm 24 cm

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As if suspended by the fore feet, the elongated form of a dead hair is adapted into an alabastron. The vessel’s thin, dark brown neck protrudes from the hare’s chest, and the top of the vessel’s mouth – which is incised with a leaf pattern – connects to the hare’s fore feet. T...

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Alessandro Castellani, Rome, by 1883 [mode of acquisition unknown]; sale, Collection Alessandro Castellani: Objets d'art antiques, Rome, March 17-April 10, 1884, no. 36 [p. 7]. Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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