figure
- Museum number
- 1891,0629.2
- Description
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Terracotta figure of a boy with a cock, boy sprawling back across a low bench with finely modelled legs, leaning to the viewer's right, both hands holding a big bunch of grapes out of the way of a very large predatory cock approaching from the left, boy is naked apart from himation draped loosely round his left shoulder, hair pulled up into three feather-like curls on top of his head. Pale orange-brown clay (with mica), white coatin, red on cock's comb and wattle, rose-madder on grapes, orange on face, arms and legs of boy, black on background.
- Production date
- 1stC BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G22/dc6)
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1891,0629.2