Lot Essay
For an ornamental "shield" with a similar mask of Acheloos, see no. 51 in Haynes, Etruscan Bronzes.
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CIRCA 520 B.C.
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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE MASK OF ACHELOOS
Circa 520 B.C.
From the center of an ornamental "shield," rendered in high relief, with a long downturned moustache and ribbed spade-shaped beard, the arching brows hatched and joined at the bridge of the nose, the almond-shaped eyes with thick upper lids, his bull horns emerging from the vertical striations of his hair, rivets in the beard for attachment (one preserved)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long
Circa 520 B.C.
From the center of an ornamental "shield," rendered in high relief, with a long downturned moustache and ribbed spade-shaped beard, the arching brows hatched and joined at the bridge of the nose, the almond-shaped eyes with thick upper lids, his bull horns emerging from the vertical striations of his hair, rivets in the beard for attachment (one preserved)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long
Provenance
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1981.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
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. 81-49.