A GREEK LIMESTONE KOUROS

EAST GREEK, ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK LIMESTONE KOUROS
EAST GREEK, ARCHAIC PERIOD,
CIRCA EARLY 6TH CENTURY B.C.
The nude youth striding forward with the left leg advanced, his arms stiffly at his sides, the preserved right hand fisted, his long hair smooth at the top of the head but for a dimpled central part at the front, and falling down the back in a thick mass, with plaits behind the ears and falling forward onto his chest, the plaits with horizontal banding finished with four long points below, with large almond-shaped eyes beneath softly-modelled arching brows, thin lips pursed into a slight smile, and a small pointed chin, preserving traces of red pigment on the lips
12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.) high

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with Robin Symes, London.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1988.

拍品專文

The Morven kouros has close affinities, in terms of the material, scale and treatment of the body, to an example belonging to the Sounion Group found at Kamiros, Rhodes, now in the British Museum (no. 27, figs. 126-128 in Richter, Kouroi, Archaic Greek Youths), and also to a fragmentary example belonging to the Orchomenos-Thera Group found at Naukratis, now in Cairo (no. 61, figs. 204-205 in Richter, op. cit.). A related figure, grasping a lion, from Cyprus is regarded as an import into Cyprus from East Greece (see no. 17, p. 6 in Budde and Nichols, A Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).