Faience Pot (unguentarium?) in the Shape of a Hedgehog

Manifacture in Rhodes (?).

h. 6 cm

Egypt, 600-550 BC

Faience

Provenance

Ex collection of Gunter Grimm, collected in the 1960s
Acquired at Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris, December 1, 2011, lot 168

Publications

Pierre Bergé catalogue, December 1, 2011, lot 168
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 43 and 91
C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique. Le bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 38, fig. 32 and p. 81

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2011
Animal, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, February 26, 2016 — June 19, 2016

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