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Frog   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Egypt)Unknown author
Title
Frog
Description
English: This lively frog carefully carved from a piece of green stone is pierced lengthwise through the base. It may have served as a bezel for a ring or as a pendant on a necklace. Frogs were seen as animals which are related to fertility and creation.
Date between 1550 and 1185 BC
date QS:P571,-1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,-1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1185-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(New Kingdom of Egypt
era QS:P2348,Q180568
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Medium green stone, probably jasper
Dimensions height: 1.4 cm (0.5 in); width: 0.4 cm (0.1 in); depth: 0.8 cm (0.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,1.49U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,0.48U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,0.81U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.193
Place of creation Egypt
Object history
  • Collection of Lord Carmichael of Skirling [a few miles north of Biggar, Scotland]
  • Antiquities of the Collection of the Late Lord Carmichael of Skirling Sale, Sotheby and Company, London, June 9, 1926, lot 244
  • Joseph Brummer, New York, 1926, by purchase
  • 1927: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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