Female Head Effigy Oinochoe

CultureGreek (Attic)
Titles
  • Female Head Effigy Oinochoe
Date500–400 BC
Made inAthens, Greece
MediumTerracotta with slip
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 × 3 15/16 × 2 3/16 in. (15.5 × 10 × 5.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan
Object number37.15
Not on view

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Department
Antiquities
Object Type
Provenance[Theodore Zoumpoulakis, Athens, by 1935]; purchased by Miss Annette Finnigan (1873–1940), Houston, 1935–1937; given to MFAH, 1937.
Exhibition History"Ten Centuries that Shaped the West," The Rice Institute for the Arts, Houston, October 15, 1970–January 3, 1971;
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, February 3–April 1, 1971;
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, May 16–July 11, 1971.

"Containers and Vessels" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston October 21, 1989–January 1990 Subsequent tour

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