Pan Playing the Pipes
325-31 BCE
Description
High relief against flat back. Figure is in side profile and broken off below elbows. Bearded, balding Pan playing two pipes. Round face and thick nose. Pipes are slightly broken. (Bottom row, far left, in photograph) Hard, pale brown clay; traces of white slip.
Dimensions
3.3 x 3.4 cm (1 5/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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