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Description

A Greek terracotta cockerel and dove
Circa 5th Century B.C.
The cockerel modelled with cockscomb and wattle with full tail feathers, the white slip with red details remaining, 14.5cm high, and a dove, sacred to Aphrodite, with rounded head and bulbous eyes, with long striated folded wings, set on short conical legs, 10.5cm high (2)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Private collection, London, acquired in the 1960s; by descent to the present owner.

For the cockerel, cf. R.A. Higgins, Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities British Museum, British Museum, 1970, Vol.I, pls.188 & 190 & p.79, for examples from Camirus, Rhodes. For the dove ibid, Vol.I, pl.569 & p.155, for a similar example from Mytilene, Lesbos.