SculptureTyrolean?17th-18th century

Votive Animal

c. 1700

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Iron

Culture

Tyrolean?

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

4 x 2.9 x 7.5 cm (1 9/16 x 1 1/8 x 2 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Mary Henle, Haverford, PA, Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1989.

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