An Etruscan Large Bronze Votive Figure Of A Kore, Late Archaic, Circa 480 B.C.

Asset Category
Location
London
Catalog Name
Japanese Private Collection
Lot Number
626

An Etruscan Large Bronze Votive Figure Of A Kore, Late Archaic, Circa 480 B.C.

Description Acquired from a Swiss Private Collection

Striding with her left foot forward and both forearms extended. A pomegranate in her left hand, a fragmentary flower in her right hand, and wearing boots with central tab, chiton with wavy pleats. Long close-fitting himation draped over the right shoulder and falling down the lower back. Moreover the neck of the chiton and hem of the himation with cross-hatched decoration, her hair radiating from the crown, bound and rolled up in a twisted fillet. The details being finely engraved.

Height without tenons 21.4 cm.

Provenance :
Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001) Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979), Lugano, acquired from the above in 1962 by descent to the present owner.

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