Greek figure of an actor with a goose in a basket

An image of Figure/Statuette. Actor, with a goose in a basket. Moulded clay, height 0.147 m, 300-101 B.C. Hellenistic Period. Greek.

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Figure/Statuette. Actor, with a goose in a basket. Moulded clay, height 0.147 m, 300-101 B.C. Hellenistic Period. Greek.

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Accession Number: GR.85d.1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 598 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 418.45kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2011:11:21 20:17:12

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3rd Century actor Ancient Greece antiquity BC bearded birds characters clay drama dramatic faces facial expressions figure Fitz_ANT geese goose Greek grotesque Hellenistic Period male moulded performer performing smile smiling statuette theatre theatrical

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