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