54.1908: Eros and Psyche
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 54.1908
- Title
- Eros and Psyche
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- statuette, sculpture
- Date
- 323-31 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Asia Minor
- Period
- Hellenistic period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/293382
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Mold-made
- Dimensions
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13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Elbow to wing: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Misses Katharine B. and Mary D. Upham; loan to Fogg Art Museum, 1908.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Loan from Estate of Donald Upham and Mrs. R. U. Hunter
- Object Number
- 54.1908
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Two figures standing side by side. Psyche is on the left, dressed in a himation with a melon coiffure. Eros is nude, but has a chlamys thrown over his shoulders, with his left wing protruding and is wearing a garland around his head. Traces of red in Psyche's hair, unmodeled back with no vent hole. Small hole in the center between the figures, base and back repaired inside with white plaster.
Traces of red pigment.
Publication History
- Amy Sowder, "Greek Bronze Hydriai" (2009), Emory University, (Ph.D. diss.), p. 264.
Verification Level
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