M0020022: Terracotta sculpture of Chiron the Centaur, likely Etruscan

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Terracotta, probably Etruscan of Cherion the Centaur.

Terracotta statue on a wooden base. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1923 and accessioned in 1951 (accession number R9/1951)

March 1965

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R9/1951

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.