AN ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY ANTEFIX
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
AN ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY ANTEFIX

CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

Details
AN ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTARY ANTEFIX
CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
12 ¾ in. (32.3 cm.) long
Provenance
Elsa Bloch-Diener (1922-2012), Bern, 1975 (Antike Kunst, no. 113).
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above, 1975; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
I. Jucker, Italy of the Etruscans, Mainz, 1991, p. 257, no. 332.
M. True and K. Hamma, eds., A Passion for Antiquities: Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleishman, Malibu, 1994, p. 197.
Exhibited
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Italy of the Etruscans, 1991.

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Lot Essay

For more complete antefixes, perhaps from the same mold, depicting a satyr chasing a maenad, see the examples in New York (no. 4.126 in R.D. de Puma, Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the one formerly in the Getty Museum (no. 92 in True and Hamma, eds., op. cit.).

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