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Faience vase in the shape of a duck
Date 3rd century or 2nd century BC
Medium faience, with polychrome glaze
Dimensions 8.5 × 18 × 7.9 cm (3.3 × 7 × 3.1 in)
Accession number
48.421
Place of creation Alexandria, Egypt (Greco-Roman Egypt)
Exhibition history
  • From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery. 1988-1989.
  • Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery. 1998-2001.
  • Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World. 2016.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1926
Notes Photographed in 2016 while on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for the exhibition Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World.
References Walters Art Museum online catalogue
Source/Photographer Mark Landon (2016)
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