SculptureGreek4th-1st century BCE
Fragment of Winged Male Figure
323-31 BCE
Description
Nude male youth with large wings. Feathers on wings indicated. Well modeled torso, indistinct facial features, long wavy hair topped with a polos. (Upper row, far left-hand figure, in photograph) Hard, pale but orangish-brown clay; traces of white slip.
Dimensions
9.8 x 6.7 cm (3 7/8 x 2 5/8 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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