AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE KOUROS

CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE KOUROS
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Perhaps from the lid of a lebes, the nude youth standing on a circular plinth with his left leg advanced and his arms raised, his cap-like hair with incised strands at the forehead, with large almond-shaped eyes, a small mouth and pointed chin
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Swiss Private Collection.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989.

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. 89-73.

Lot Essay

For a lebes lid finial in the form of a warrior, of the same scale, with similar treatment of the body and face, and on a similar plinth, see no. 53 in Mitten and Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World.

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