Head of a Grotesque Wearing Wreath

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

2nd-1st century BCE

Greek

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Ancient Greek
Title: Head of a Grotesque Wearing Wreath
Place: Greece (Object made in)
Date: 200 BCE–1 BCE
Medium: terracotta
Dimensions: 5 × 3.5 × 4.5 cm (2 × 1 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1889.290
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Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

Francis H. Bacon (1856–1940), Boston; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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