CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ITALIC BRONZE MALE FIGURE
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Donati Arte Classica, Lugano.
Acquired from the above in 1987.

Literature

J. Chamay, The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000-300 B.C., Geneva, 1993, no. 162.

Exhibited

Musée Rath, Geneva, 6 November 1993 – 13 February 1994; Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris 1 March – 30 April 1994.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

According to Chamay this bronze figurine with a disproportionately long neck belongs to a group of Italic bronze figures representing so-called ‘ant-people’, see also nos 163 and 164 of the 1993 exhibition catalogue.

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