Oil flask (aryballos) in the form of a hare
650-600 BCE
Description
Small Protocorinthian oil vessel in the shape of a hare. Bobbin-shaped (wheelmade?) body rests on folded legs. Back paws are thin and sausage-shaped. Front paws are large and wedge-shaped. Hemispherical tail. Small, moldmade (?) head with filling hole at top. Large modeled eyes, small pierced nostrils, incised mouth. Pointy ears are raised. Small hole for suspension connects ears to back of body. Pale buff-orange body with details in orange and dark brown slip. Body stippled all over in orange slip. Point of juncture between body and legs filled with orange slip, with some dark brown details. Back haunch delineated in orange. Modeled eye slipped dark brown with orange eyelashes extending beyond a dark brown eyebrow. Mouth detailed in brown slip. Ear outlined in brown, with interior slipped orange. Significant flaking of slip. Repair at chest.
Dimensions
8 x 7.4 x 4 cm (3 1/8 x 2 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Provenance
From the collection of Herbert A. Cahn. Purchased at auction October 18, 2002. Jean-David Cahn AG, Auktion 3, 18 October 2002, Basel. Kunstwerke der Antike: Sammlung Tilly und Herbert A. Cahn. Lot 18.
Related Artworks
View MoreAlabaster
3rd millennium BCEEgyptianHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gold
18th centuryGermanHard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels
18th-19th centuryGermanPale blue glass
1st-2nd century CERomanSilver
18th centuryBritishFritware with slip painting and sgraffito decoration under turquoise glaze (silhouette-ware)
12th-13th centuryPersianSalt glazed stoneware
20th centuryBritish, WelshSue ware: gray surfaced reddish-brown stoneware with incised decoration
7th-8th centuryJapaneseNorthern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip
11th-12th centuryChineseRose quartz
19th-20th centuryChinese
Porcelain with underglaze copper red design
21st centuryJapaneseOlive and grayish-green translucent nephrite with deep brown and dark green patches and with altered areas
3rd-1st century BCEChinese