The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 22, 2023

Small Lepidotus Fish

305–30 BC

Egypt, Probably Ptolemaic Dynasty

Bronze, hollow cast

Overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); with tang: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.); without tang: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.577

Location

not on view

Provenance
Purchased from Nicolas Tano, Cairo, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
Citations
Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 481; Mentioned: p. 481-2
Exhibition history

CMA 1916, no. 17, p. 205

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.577