LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: boar

Bronze plaque in the shape of a boar Period: Classical Date: ca. 5th–4th century B.C. Culture: Greek Medium: Bronze Dimensions: H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm) length 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm) Classification: Bronzes Credit Line: Purchase, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Gift, 2002 Accession Number: 2002.200 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300... and This plaque was likely a shield decoration, a rarely preserved but common feature of Greek armor. The powerful effect and great variety of Greek shield devices can be seen in many of the scenes of warriors on vases throughout these galleries. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Standing boar, Eastern Javanese period, ca. 14th century Indonesia (Java) Bronze L. 6 13/16 in. (17.5 cm) Samuel Eilenberg Collection Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987 (1987.142.259) On view: Gallery 247 Last Updated April 19, 2011 During the rule of the Eastern Javanese kingdom of Majapahit (fourteenth through early sixteenth century), there developed a fondness for a category of object apparently derived from the Western piggy bank. Many terracotta pigs, naturalistic and usually well sculpted, with slots cut at the top so that they could serve as coin boxes, have been recovered from around Trowulan, the Majapahit capital. Even though swine must have played an important role in the domestic economy, the reasons for the great popularity of this animal shape for coin boxes in Eastern Java are unclear. It has been suggested that the shape is a well-suited allusion to financial success as well as culinary delights, since pork and especially suckling pigs are considered a great delicacy. A few of these terracotta pigs are unslotted, and their function, like that of this rare example in bronze, remains unknown. The fierce look of this creature and his projecting tusks suggest he is a wild boar who is sufficiently domesticated to wear a chain with a bell, a common feature of most of the Eastern Javanese terracotta piggy banks. Hollow, this charming boar was cast in two sections—front half and back half. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.142.259

Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) Medium; Technique: Terracotta; red-figure Culture: Greek, Attic Period: Classical Date: ca. 460 B.C. Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter Dimensions: H. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm); diameter 14 7/16 in. (36.7 cm); width with handles 18 1/16 in. (45.8 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1941 Accession Number: 41.162.9 Description: Interior, hunter attacking boar Exterior, obverse and reverse, athletes The workshop of the Penthesilea Painter was the most active purveyor of cups during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C. The tondo here illustrates the artist's facility with his medium. A rocky setting is implied by the curvilinear forms at the sides, the boar's hide is indicated by a few strokes of dilute glaze, and the hunter wields his machaira (knife) in the post of the Tyrant-slayers. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) Medium; Technique: Terracotta; red-figure Culture: Greek, Attic Period: Classical Date: ca. 460 B.C. Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Penthesilea Painter Dimensions: H. 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm); diameter 14 7/16 in. (36.7 cm); width with handles 18 1/16 in. (45.8 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1941 Accession Number: 41.162.9 Description: Interior, hunter attacking boar Exterior, obverse and reverse, athletes The workshop of the Penthesilea Painter was the most active purveyor of cups during the second quarter of the fifth century B.C. The tondo here illustrates the artist's facility with his medium. A rocky setting is implied by the curvilinear forms at the sides, the boar's hide is indicated by a few strokes of dilute glaze, and the hunter wields his machaira (knife) in the post of the Tyrant-slayers. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Title: Vessel fragment in the form of a boar's head Period: Iron Age Date: 7th–6th century B.C. Geography: Phrygia Medium: Ceramic, paint Dimensions: 4.09 x 2.72 x 4.53 in. (10.39 x 6.91 x 11.51 cm) Classification: Ceramics-Vessel Credit Line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1984 Accession Number: 1984.453.4 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien...

Vessel in the Form of a Boar Ceramic, paint Southwestern Iran Proto-Elamite period, 3100-2900 BC Accession # 1979.71 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Marble Relief with Herakles Carrying the Erymanthian Boar Roman, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 BC- 68 AD Accession # 13.60 Large marble reliefs of this type were set into walls as decoration. Many figures were shown in an archaistic style, reinterpreting the stiff appearance of early Greek art in a highly sophisticated and decorative manner. In the relief at the right, Herakles carries a wild boar that he was obliged to capture alive as one of the twelve labors imposed by Eurystheus, ruler of the Argolid. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Terracotta Rattle with a Child Riding a Boar Possibly from Pompeii, Italy 1st century BC- 1st century AD # 51-46-186 A small terracotta pellet inside the body of the boar makes the rattling noise. Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.

Storage Jar with Herakles Carrying the Erymanthean Boar Greek, made in Athens, about 510 BC Terracotta Black-figured neck amphora attributed to the Leagros Group as painter. Inventory # 86.AE.83 Herakles was sent on his labors by King Eurystheus of Mycenae and Tiryns. One of the labors was to capture a fierce boar that ravaged the countryside around Mount Erymanthos. Here Herakles presents the beast to King Eurystheus, with Athena looking on. The frightened king hides in a large jar. Text from the Getty Villa museum label.

Plate Greek, East Greek, Orientalizing Period, about 640–630 B.C. Place of Manufacture: Rhodes, Greece Dimensions: 30.5 cm (diameter) Medium or Technique: Ceramic Classification: Vessels Catalogue Raisonné: Fairbanks, Vases (MFA), no. 293; Highlights: Classical Art (MFA), p. 151. Accession Number: 99.509 A boar to right above a ground line. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/plate-154587