Lot Essay
PUBLISHED: Métamorphoses, pp. 61 and 335.
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3RD CENTURY B.C.
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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ALEXANDER KERAUNOPHOROS (WITH THUNDERBOLT)
3RD CENTURY B.C.
The naked figure vibrantly depicted with long wavy hair blowing around his face, standing with left leg flexed, his chlamys over his left shoulder and wrapped around his arm, holding a thunderbolt in his outstretched left hand, his other hand upraised to grip lance (now missing), mounted
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
3RD CENTURY B.C.
The naked figure vibrantly depicted with long wavy hair blowing around his face, standing with left leg flexed, his chlamys over his left shoulder and wrapped around his arm, holding a thunderbolt in his outstretched left hand, his other hand upraised to grip lance (now missing), mounted
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in the Wilhelm Horn collection, Berlin: sold Christie's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 177.
Exhibited
Antiken aus Rheinischen Privatbesitz, Bonn 1973-4, Köln 1973, no. 227, pl. 99.
Special notice
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