LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: animal symbols
Beaker with Birds and Animals in the Metropolitan…
30 Jul 2008 |
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Beaker with Birds and Animals
Silver
Thrace, lower Danube region
Thraco-Getian, 4th century BC
Accession # 47.100.88
The scene depicts a row of stags, a goat, a bird, and a bird of prey attacking a fish and a hare. On the base is a beast eating the leg of an animal while holding another in its claws. A vessel almost identical in form and representation to this example was excavated at Agighiol in Romania. The extraordinary and exotic stylization- for example birds' heads projecting from antlers- is foreign to Western concepts and powerfully reflects Central Asian sensibilities and ideology.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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