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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED E. MIRSKY, SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM OF THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

A GREEK BRONZE HORSE GROUP

GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 8TH CENTURY B.C.

細節

A GREEK BRONZE HORSE GROUP
GEOMETRIC PERIOD, CIRCA LATE 8TH CENTURY B.C.
In the form of a team of three horses with elongated muzzles and tails, slim tubular bodies, broad thighs and ridged manes, standing together on an openwork rectangular plinth, joined by yokes through their midsections
2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

來源

Anonymous sale; Münzen und Medaillen, Basel, 6 May 1967, lot 1.
Alfred E. Mirsky (1900-1974).

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拍品專文

For a related team of two horses see no. 76, pp. 95-96 in von Bothmer, ed., Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection. A three-horse team, as here, is unusual. For four sheep on a single plinth see no. 4 in Comstock and Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.