SculptureElamite4th-3rd millennium BCE
Two Monkeys
c. 3000 BCE-c. 2000 BCE
Description
Elamite statuette, made of grey-green marble, in the form of two monkeys, from Iran, perhaps the site of Susa, in the late 4th millennium B.C. One monkey is riding on the back of the other, gripping his sides. The monkey being ridden has his right leg forward and holds his arms on either side of his face. Eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth are incised on the faces of both figures.
Dimensions
Height: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
Related Artworks
View MoreSculpture
Young Woman Carrying a Child on Her Right Shoulder
Claude Michel, called Clodion, 1790-1800
Terracotta
18th-19th centuryFrenchSculpture
Lotus Architectural Roundel
Unknown Artist
Ceramic
Central AsianSculpture
Aphrodite Wearing a Bird Headdress
Unknown Artist, 2nd-3rd century CE
Leaded bronze
2nd-3rd century CERomanSculpture
Jade Duck with a Sprig of Scrolling Lotus, the Duck Carved in Archaic Style
Unknown Artist, mid 18th-early 19th century
Pale, greenish white nephrite with caramel markings
18th-19th centuryChineseSculpture
Standing figure
Unknown Artist
Terracotta
Sculpture
Adoration of the Magi
Unidentified Artist, 1450-1500
Alabaster
15th centuryBritishSculpture
Fragment of a Draped Female Head
Unknown Artist, c. 500-400 BCE
Terracotta
5th century BCEGreekSculpture
Kneeling Draped Woman
Unknown Artist, 3rd-2nd century BCE
Terracotta
3rd-2nd century BCEGreekSculpture
Frog
Unknown Artist, mid 7th-late 1st century BCE
Leaded copper-tin-antimony alloy
7th-1st century BCEEgyptianSculpture
Cast of a Statuette from the Furtwängler Collection
Unknown Artist
Plaster
Sculpture
Chessman
Jean (Hans) Arp, 1958, cast 1958-1963
Plaster
20th centuryFrenchSculpture
Smiting Male
Unknown Artist, 16th-13th century BCE
Bronze
16th-13th century BCELevantine