Capital from an Engaged Column: Allegorical Animals - Boar, Affronted Brids with Grapes and Bird Attacking a Dog

Unknown French, French

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about 1180

Limestone

Overall: 6 1/2 × 6 × 6 1/2 in. (16.5 × 15.2 × 16.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

S.978.11

Geography

Place Made: France, Europe

Period

1000-1400

Object Name

Sculpture

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Exhibition History

Acquisitions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss & Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1979.

New Selections from the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 23-June 30, 1979.

Selections 3rd-15th Centuries from the College Collection featuring new acquisitions, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 21-May 21, 1978.

Provenance

M. Glueckselig & Son, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1978.

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