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Bacchic figure,
16th century

Italian

y1994-67

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Title

Bacchic figure

Dates

16th century

Medium

Terracotta with polychrome

Dimensions

28.2 × 28.4 × 18.8 cm (11 1/8 × 11 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift from the collection of Millard Meiss, Class of 1926, and Margaret L. Meiss

Object Number

y1994-67

Culture

Italian

Type

sculpture

Subject

men, gods, terracotta

Torri Gattaia (Florence), Charles Loeser Collection; Sotheby's. London, Catalogue of Fine Italian Maiolica, 8 December 1959, lot 161; Connoisseur, 1959, p. IV, ill.; Florence, Marcello Guidi (ca. 1962); Millard and Margaret Meiss Collection, Princeton, 1965-1994; gift of Margaret Meiss to Princeton University Art Museum, 1994.

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1994," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 54, no. 1 (1995): p. 40-79., p. 47 (illus.)

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Italian, Bacchic figure, 16th century. Terracotta with polychrome; 28.2 × 28.4 × 18.8 cm. Gift from the collection of Millard Meiss, Class of 1926, and Margaret L. Meiss (y1994-67)
Princeton University Art Museum.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/33860?field_tms_obj_subjects_target_id=106

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Italian, Bacchic figure, 16th century. Terracotta with polychrome; 28.2 × 28.4 × 18.8 cm. Gift from the collection of Millard Meiss, Class of 1926, and Margaret L. Meiss (y1994-67)

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