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Trinity College, Oxford - Griffin
The griffin has the head of an eagle (king of the birds) and the body of a lion (king of the animals). Trinity's coat of arms has griffins in it, so the griffin can be considered the college bird/animal. The griffin appears in Alice in Wonderland because of the Trinity connection. The photos are of a NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art's bronze griffin head (1972-118.54) which has been on ddisplay since September 2008.
The griffin head was acquired from a 1971 bequest by Walter C. Baker. Provenance is Olympia. Date is the third quarter of the 7th century BC. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin.)
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| Griffin head at Met (front view) |
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| Griffin head at Met Museum NYC |
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| Curator's Note |
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