Lot Essay
For a related example in the Ashmolean Museum see no. 132 in Haynes, Etruscan Bronzes.
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CIRCA LATE 5TH-EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE YOUTHFUL VOTARY
CIRCA LATE 5TH-EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Standing with the left foot turned out, wearing a heavy mantle draped around his waist and over his left arm, its edges enhanced by a punched tongue pattern, pouring a libation from the phiale in his right hand, the left extended forward, palm upward, wearing a thick wreath in his carefully striated hair, on an integral thin rectangular plinth which is perforated for attachment
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 5TH-EARLY 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Standing with the left foot turned out, wearing a heavy mantle draped around his waist and over his left arm, its edges enhanced by a punched tongue pattern, pouring a libation from the phiale in his right hand, the left extended forward, palm upward, wearing a thick wreath in his carefully striated hair, on an integral thin rectangular plinth which is perforated for attachment
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high
Provenance
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 28).
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. 88-57.
Exhibited
From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 26 March - 23 June 1996.