Statuette of a Horse

CultureGreek
Titles
  • Statuette of a Horse
Date750–700 BC
PlaceGreece
MediumBronze
Dimensions2 7/8 × 3 1/4 × 1 3/8 inches (7.3 × 8.3 × 3.5 cm.)

Credit LineGift of Miss Annette Finnigan
Object number37.22
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"4000 Years of Modern Art," Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore MD, Nov 27 1956–June 30 1957.

"Ten Centuries that Shaped the West," The Rice Institute for the Arts, Houston, Tex., October 15, 1970–January 3, 1971; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Tex., February 3–April 1, 1971; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 16–July 11, 1971.

"From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer," Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., October 9–December 5 1993; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkley, Calif., January 19–March 20 1994; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., April 23–June 19, 1994(LN:93.12)

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