Inv. n°: MMoCA781

Faience Pot (unguentarium?) in the Shape of a Hedgehog

Manifacture in Rhodes (?).

h. 6 cm

Egypt, 600-550 BC

Faience

Provenance

  • Ex collection of Gunter Grimm, collected in the 1960s
  • Acquired at Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, 1st December 2011, lot 168

Publications

  • Pierre Bergé catalogue, 1st December 2011, lot 168
  • C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 43 and 91
  • C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique. Le bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 38, fig. 32 and p. 81

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2011
  • Animal, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 26th February 2016 — 19th June 2016

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