LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: goat

Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug) Period: Classical Date: ca. 400 B.C. Culture: Greek, Attic Medium: Terracotta Dimensions: H. 10.21 cm. Classification: Vases Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921 Accession Number: 21.88.80 Description: Boy driving goat-drawn chariot preceded by boy with chous The representation, with the lively animals and polychromy, is particularly engaging. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

This whimsical bronze statue is part of a pair of niche sculptures that flank the brick triple-archway between the Central Park Zoo and the Children's Zoo. The Dancing Goat stands at the south side, with the Honey Bear at the north. Cast at Roman Bronze Works in Brooklyn and installed in 1937, the sculptures serve as decorative fountains. Placed in basins at the sides of the zoo's Dancing Crane Café, both animals stand on their hind legs. Water sprays from five ducks at the feet of the goat, and from five small frogs at the feet of the bear. The lighthearted pieces were created by renowned animal sculptor and Brooklyn native Frederick George Richard Roth. They are among several Roth works acquired by Central Park in the 1920s and 1930s. (Among them is Balto, the statue of the legendary Alaskan husky). The Central Park Conservancy refurbished the sculptures in 1993, and today Roth’s pieces continue to delight Park and Zoo visitors of all ages. Text from: www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/danc...

Title: Levantine vessel with rampant goats and olive trees Date: late 2nd-early 1st Millennium BC Geography: Egypt, said to be from Helmaya Medium: Ivory Dimensions: H. 6 1/2 in. (16.4cm) Classification: Ivory/Bone-Vessel Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1950 Accession Number: 50.198.2 On View Text from: www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/ob...

Stucco Relief with a Goat Roman, Augustan, 1st century AD Accession # 26.60.85 This small painted stucco fragment probably comes from a well-appointed house or tomb in Rome. Other larger panels are displayed in the adjacent Roman Imperial Gallery. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Terracotta Antefix Roman, Augustan, late 1st century BC-early 1st century AD Accession # 11.140.1 The palmette-shaped antefix is decorated with the butting heads of two billy goats. Such representations were popular motifs in ancient art, but they may have had special significance in in imperial Rome, since the constellation Capricorn was adopted by the emperor Augustus as his own lucky star sign and appeared on coins and legionary standards. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Goat and Suckling Kid Hard-paste porcelain Model: Johann Joachim Kandler (1706-75), before August 1732 Meissen, ca. 1732-35 Accession # 62.245 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Slab with Goat Creator: Syrian (Sculptor) Period: 10th-9th century BC Medium: limestone (Sculpture) Accession Number: 21.17 Measurements: 25 x 15 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (63.5 x 40.5 x 22.5 cm) Geographies: Tell Halaf (in present-day Syria) (Place of Origin) This relief was excavated in northern Syria at the site of Tell Halaf, the capital of a small independent city-state known as Guzana to the Assyrians, who conquered it in the late 9th century BC. More than two hundred such stone reliefs (so-called orthostates) decorated the façade of a temple-palace built in the 10th century BC by a local ruler named Kapara, son of Khadiânu. He reused the blocks from one or more pre-existing structures and carved an inscription in cuneiform on each one that states, "Palace of Kapara, son of Khadiânu." The blocks were placed so that limestone ones painted red alternated with others of black basalt. While the human images have been depicted in the less sophisticated, local style, many of the animal reliefs, such as the goat, may have been modeled on finely carved ivories imported from northern Syria and Phoenicia that were found at the site. This rearing goat, looking back over its shoulder, was part of a traditional composition in which two goats flanked a sacred tree- a very old Mesopotamian motif. The rendering of the animal is relatively sophisticated, with even its muscles and fur indicated. King Kapara's full inscription appears in two neat lines to the right of the goat's head. Text from: art.thewalters.org/detail/23972/slab-with-goat/

Oinochoe Greek, East Greek, 620–580 B.C. Place of Manufacture: Miletus Dimensions: Height: 31 cm (12 3/16 in.) Medium or Technique: Ceramic Classification: Vessels Catalogue Raisonné: Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 290. Accession Number: 03.90 From bottom to neck three bands: (1) lotus flowers and buds; (2) dog pursuing six goats; (3) palmettes, griffins, geese and goats. Creamy slip. Handle repaired. Body flares from base; well-defined shoulder, trefoil mouth. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/oinochoe-154590