A ROMAN MARBLE SOW AND PIGLETS
PROPERTY FROM THE LEO MILDENBERG COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ANIMALS
A ROMAN MARBLE SOW AND PIGLETS

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

细节
A ROMAN MARBLE SOW AND PIGLETS
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The sow reclining to her right on her left side providing space for three eager piglets who crowd towards their mother's teats, the sow with recessed eyes, perhaps once inlaid, her ears lying flat to the sides, the tip of her flat snout slightly recessed, her legs folded below, the piglets on an integral landscape
6 in. (15.2 cm.) long
出版
J. Biers, ed., A Peaceable Kingdom, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part VI, Mainz am Rhein, 2004, no. 77.