ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Figurine of a Male Orant

AAT Object Form/FunctionFigurines

Place CreatedCrete, Greece, Asia

CultureMinoan

PeriodLate Minoan I

Date1600-1500 BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art

Dimensions1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

Object number1986.009.004

Exhibition HistoryOdyssey of an Art Collector: Unity in Diversity, 5000 Years of Art, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11, 1966 - January 8, 1967
Master Bronzes from the Classical World (traveling show), The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 4, 1967 - January 23, 1968; City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, March 1 - April 13, 1968; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, May 8 - June 30, 1968
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - June 19, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesOdyssey of an Art Collector: Unity in Diversity, 5000 Years of Art (New Orleans: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1966), 140, number 6.
David Gordon Mitten and Suzannah F. Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World (Mainz on Rhine: Philipp von Zabern, 1967), 28, number 3.

ProvenanceEx coll. Elie Borowski (1913-2003), Basel, Switzerland. Ex coll. Elizabeth (1928-2018) and Frederick (1905-1992) Stafford, Paris and New York, by 1966. Purchased by Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology from Safani Gallery, New York, New York.

Status

On view

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