Seated Child Holding Grapes

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

3rd/2nd century BCE

Greek

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Artist: Ancient Greek
Title: Seated Child Holding Grapes
Origin: Greece
Date: 300 BCE–100 BCE
Medium: terracotta
Dimensions: 4.5 × 3 × 3.2 cm ( 1 3/4 × 1 3/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1889.263

Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 18.

Francis H. Bacon (1856–1940), Boston; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1889.

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