A GREEK BRONZE FEMALE FIGURE

DAEDALIC, CIRCA MID 7TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK BRONZE FEMALE FIGURE
DAEDALIC, CIRCA MID 7TH CENTURY B.C.
The slender, well-modelled nude figure, perhaps a doll, with separately-made arms, now missing, once attached by means of projecting pins at the shoulders, her face framed by balanced masses of hair on either side delineated by strong horizontal waves, the eyes recessed, perhaps for inlay, the head surmounted by a cushion-shaped cap
4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm.) high

Provenance

with Robin Symes, London.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 2).

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. 88-82.

Lot Essay

Small sculpture in the Daedalic style, although fairly common in terracotta, are comparatively rare in bronze. The Morven example finds its closest parallel in a small kouros from Delphi, thought to be of Cretan manufacture, no. 56 in Rolley, Greek Bronzes.

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