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The Senator William A. Clark (1839-1925) Collection of Greek Terracottas and Pottery (Lots 166-176)
Lot 168*

A Rhodian terracotta squatting satyr and a Greek Hermes Kriophoros
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The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
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A Rhodian terracotta squatting satyr and a Greek Hermes Kriophoros

Circa 6th-5th Century B.C.
8cm and 10.3cm high (2)

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Provenance:
Raphaël Collin (1850-1916) collection, Paris.
The Senator William A. Clark (1839-1925) Collection, acquired from the above in 1911.
Bequeathed to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1925.
Deaccessioned and gifted to the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., 2014.
with Sands of Time Ancient Art, Washington D.C., 2021.

Published:
R. Collin, Collection of Antique Grecian, Egyptian and Etruscan Statuettes, Vases, Tanagras, Etc., Paris, 1911, p. 2, nos. 11 and 12.
Original Clark Catalogue, Part II, p. 234, no, 11; p. 235, no. 12.
The Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1928, p. 100, nos. 2514 and 2515 (and in the 1932 edition of the same name).

Exhibited:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 'The William A. Clark Collection,' 26 April-16 July 1978.

For the squatting satyr, cf. R.A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities British Museum, Oxford, 1969, pp. 73-74, pl. 31, nos. 160-164.

The word kriophoros, meaning 'ram-bearer', relates to a cult deriving from an Eastern Greek myth of Hermes saving a plague-bound city by carrying a ram on his shoulders around its walls.

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