SculptureHellenistic2nd century BCE
Grotesque Head of an "Orator"
323-150 BCE
Description
Pudgy, wrinkled face of a man with a large, bulbous nose. Good hand-modeling, with no trace of slip or color. Broken vertically in half behind ears and repaired. Hard, reddish-brown clay with very little mica.
Dimensions
3.33 cm (1 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1935.
Related Artworks
View MoreSculpture
Comb
Unidentified Maker, Copy of 16th century original.
Plaster
20th centuryGermanSculpture
Kneeling Female Figure, from the tomb sculpture set: Kneeling Female Figure Beating a Circular Drum on a Stand in the Form of a Kneeling Human with a Bird's Beak (or Wearing a Bird Mask)
Unknown Artist, 2nd-1st century BCE
Molded medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments over white ground
2nd-1st century BCEChineseSculpture
Blue Dog
Unknown Artist, c. 1400-1100 BCE
Faience
14th-12th century BCEEgyptianSculpture
Virgin and Child
Unidentified Artist, 13th century
Ivory
13th centuryFrench?Sculpture
Dancing Apsara (Winged Deity)
Unknown Artist, late 12th century-early 13th century
Cast bronze; style of Angkor Thom
12th-13th centuryKhmerSculpture
Bodhisattva Seated on a Lotus Throne
Unknown Artist, Wu-Yue Kingdom, 907-978
Leaded bronze; lost-wax cast
10th centuryChineseSculpture
Head and Chest of Apollo
Unknown Artist, 19th-early 20th century
Mixed copper alloy
19th-20th centuryUnidentified cultureSculpture
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
François Marie Suzanne, after 1793
Plaster
19th-20th centuryFrenchSculpture
Crucifixion Group
Unidentified Artist, 1700-1725
Wood
18th centuryAustrianSculpture
Head
Unknown Artist
Terracotta
GreekSculpture
Seated Antonite Monk
Unidentified Artist, c. 1280-1290
Sandstone
13th centuryGermanSculpture
Cycladic Head
Unknown Artist, 2600-2500 BCE
Marble, hematite
3rd millennium BCECycladic