WALL AROUND CASE B. The Saffron Gatherer

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/1/10/1/1
Year c. 1921
Dimensions 26 x 47 cm
Medium painting
Location Ashmolean Museum
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An early version of the Saffron Gatherer fresco by Émile Gilliéron père. In this original reconstruction of the fragments a child was shown picking crocuses. It is now understood to be a monkey.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1921. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, I, pp. 265-266, col. pl. iv

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 20