WALL AROUND CASE B. Blue bird rising from rocks with wild roses, pancratium lilies, and other flowers.

Accession Number GB/1648/AJE/4/1/30/1/36
Artist Émile Gilliéron fils
Year c. 1928
Dimensions 60 x 81 cm
Medium painting
Location Ashmolean Museum
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One of a number of paintings in the exhibition from the House of the Frescoes, excavated in 1923. It shows a blue bird, probably a rock dove, in a rocky landscape.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1928. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, II, p. 454, col. pl. xi

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