Statuette (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-207
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1857 (original number), 8-5207 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 923 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of mirror stem statuette of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a Greek bronze found in a tomb in the valley of the Kladeos near Olympia. The art of it is close kin to the sculptures of the Olympian gable groups. This places the statuette about the middle of the 5th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV page 27 and Friederichs-Wolters 357.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Statuettes (free-standing sculpture)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-207, described as Cast of mirror stem statuette of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a Greek bronze found in a tomb in the valley of the Kladeos near Olympia. The art of it is close kin to the sculptures of the Olympian gable groups. This places the statuette about the middle of the 5th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV page 27 and Friederichs-Wolters 357.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-207, described as Cast of mirror stem statuette of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a Greek bronze found in a tomb in the valley of the Kladeos near Olympia. The art of it is close kin to the sculptures of the Olympian gable groups. This places the statuette about the middle of the 5th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV page 27 and Friederichs-Wolters 357.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-207, described as Cast of mirror stem statuette of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a Greek bronze found in a tomb in the valley of the Kladeos near Olympia. The art of it is close kin to the sculptures of the Olympian gable groups. This places the statuette about the middle of the 5th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV page 27 and Friederichs-Wolters 357.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-207, described as Cast of mirror stem statuette of Aphrodite (Greek: Venus). From a Greek bronze found in a tomb in the valley of the Kladeos near Olympia. The art of it is close kin to the sculptures of the Olympian gable groups. This places the statuette about the middle of the 5th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV page 27 and Friederichs-Wolters 357.

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