CIRCA 300-250 B.C.

細節

A FINE GRAECO-ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A YOUTH, OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT TYPE
CIRCA 300-250 B.C.
Of Calvi type, with pensive gaze and idealised features, short luxuriant curls falling over the forehead, with articulated pupils and parted full lips, mounted
9½ in. (24 cm.) high

來源

Edward Davies Davenport (1778-1847) of Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, and his younger brother the Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (1787-1862) of Wootton Hall, Staffordshire, and thence by descent.

展覽

Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain, Sotheby's London, 15-31 January 1986.

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拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Alluded to in A Whitsuntide Ramble to Capesthorne Park, Macclesfield, 1850, p. 59: "On the top of the Bookcase are ranged several Busts of Terra Cotta, brought from the tombs of Etruria."
Guide to Capesthorne Hall, Including a Description of the Special Exhibition "Treasures from Italy", 1956-1958.
C. Vermeule and D. von Bothmer, 'Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain', Part 3:1, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 2, April 1959, p. 147.
L. Bromley-Davenport, Guide to Capesthorne Hall, Sandbach, 1979, p. 5, fig. 7.
C. A. Picón, Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain, London, 1986, p. 33, no. 33.

Carlos Picón, op.cit., notes that this is possibly from an architectural rather than a free-standing monument. A similar head from Calvi (Cales, Campania), now in the British Museum (no. GR 1856.12-26.447), is thought however to be a part of a statue that was either a cult image or a votive object. These terracotta heads are probably a product of combined Etruscan and Latin or Campanian artistic development.