BRONZE STATUETTE OF A ROOSTER
BRONZE STATUETTE OF A ROOSTER
Roman art, 2nd century A.D.
Statuette depicting a crowing rooster, its body leaning forward, with finely detailed plumage.
Height: 4.6 cm
Provenance: Former English private collection, acquired around 1980
Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited, London
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2011
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA657)
Bibliography: Rupert Wace Ancient Art, *A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World*, 2011, no. 39
C. Dauphin, *Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary*, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 73 and 91
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 44, figs. 36 and 91
A Roman bronze crowing cockerel,
2nd century A.D.
BRONZE STATUETTE OF A ROOSTER
Roman art, 2nd century A.D.
Statuette depicting a crowing rooster, its body leaning forward, with finely detailed plumage.
Height: 4.6 cm
Provenance: Former English private collection, acquired around 1980
Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited, London
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, acquired in 2011
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA657)
Bibliography: Rupert Wace Ancient Art, *A Collector’s Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World*, 2011, no. 39
C. Dauphin, *Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary*, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 73 and 91
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 44, figs. 36 and 91
A Roman bronze crowing cockerel,
2nd century A.D.
