.jpg?w=1)
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE KOUROS
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Perhaps from the lid of a lebes, the nude youth standing on a circular plinth, with the left leg slightly advanced, the muscular figure with bulging thighs, both arms bent and raised, the palms downward, wearing a stamped beaded necklace, his hair with punched dots indicating curls
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Perhaps from the lid of a lebes, the nude youth standing on a circular plinth, with the left leg slightly advanced, the muscular figure with bulging thighs, both arms bent and raised, the palms downward, wearing a stamped beaded necklace, his hair with punched dots indicating curls
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) high
Provenance
with Münzen und Medaillen, Basel.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1984.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1984.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
Literature
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 84-9.