1888
52.7 x 20 x 4.5 cm (20 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1888. Gift to Mariana Griswold van Rensselaer, 1888. Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1923.
Plaster
20th centuryGermanTerracotta
4th century BCEGreekPlaster painted grayish brown to imitate bronze
Molded, gray earthenware with cold-painted pigment
6th centuryChineseBronze with black-brown patina
19th-20th centuryFrenchLeaded bronze
7th-1st century BCEEgyptianBrown-surfaced iron or steel with applique gold eyes and tongue; with incised inscription beneath the snake's jaw
19th-20th centuryJapaneseLeaded bronze
7th-1st century BCEEgyptianBronze
20th centuryBritishAlabaster-like marble
2nd century CERomanWood with traces of polychromy over a white gesso ground
13th-14th centuryChineseMolded, medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments and gold leaf over white ground
7th-8th centuryChinese