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THE PROPERTY OF A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A GREEK BRONZE PATERA HANDLE
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A GREEK BRONZE PATERA HANDLE
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Solid-cast, in the form of a kouros, standing with his legs together, the feet flexed and resting on the head of a ram, his hair falling in a thick mass onto his shoulders, tapering to a point in the center, the details incised, his raised arms and head joined to the back of two reclining rams surmounting volutes, with volutes framing both ram heads, a palmette in between, a curved molding above with a projecting palmette once joined to the bowl
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) long
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Solid-cast, in the form of a kouros, standing with his legs together, the feet flexed and resting on the head of a ram, his hair falling in a thick mass onto his shoulders, tapering to a point in the center, the details incised, his raised arms and head joined to the back of two reclining rams surmounting volutes, with volutes framing both ram heads, a palmette in between, a curved molding above with a projecting palmette once joined to the bowl
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) long
Provenance
Charles Gillet (1879-1972), Lausanne; thence by descent to his son, Renaud Gillet (1913-2001), Paris.
Literature
For the type, compare the example in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, no. 76 in D.G. Mitten and S.F. Doeringer, Master Bronzes from the Classical World.
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