Lot Essay
For the type see no. 92 in Thimme, Kunst und Kultur Sardiniens vom Neolithikum bis zum Ende der Nuraghenzeit.
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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR
A SARDINIAN BRONZE ARCHER
NURAGHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A SARDINIAN BRONZE ARCHER
NURAGHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
Depicted standing, wearing a horned headdress and a short V-neck tunic, with a high layered collar, his large feet parallel (one missing) on a rectangular tenon, with a quiver hanging down his back, his bow (mostly-lost) over his left shoulder, his long oval face with pellet eyes and a long slender nose merging with his overhanging brows
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high
NURAGHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
Depicted standing, wearing a horned headdress and a short V-neck tunic, with a high layered collar, his large feet parallel (one missing) on a rectangular tenon, with a quiver hanging down his back, his bow (mostly-lost) over his left shoulder, his long oval face with pellet eyes and a long slender nose merging with his overhanging brows
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high
Provenance
London Art Market, 1987.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York 1988 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. V, 1, no. 25).
John Kluge Collection.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York 1988 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. V, 1, no. 25).
John Kluge Collection.
Literature
C.C. Vermuele and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992 (unpublished), no. 88-22.
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G. Max Bernheimer
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