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    8 June 2004

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    • AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE APLU (APOLL
    Lot 436

    AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE APLU (APOLLO)

    CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.

    Price realised

    USD 107,550

    Estimate

    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000

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    AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE APLU (APOLLO)
    CIRCA MID 4TH CENTURY B.C.
    The youthful god standing with his weight on his right leg, the left relaxed and bent at the knee, wearing a short mantle draped over his left arm and across his waist, its borders embellished with incised zigzag, his left arm upraised, the hand fisted around a now-missing attribute, his right arm lowered, holding a small deer in his hand, its head turned back, a thick garland in the god's hair which is combed forward in bangs, with thick locks in front of each ear
    9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high

    Provenance

    American Private Collection.
    with Robin Symes, London.
    with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989 (Gods and Mortals, no. 29).

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    Literature and exhibited

    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. 89-01.
    J.J. Herrmann, "From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection," Minerva, vol. 7, no. 2, 1996, p. 40, fig. 5.


    Exhibited

    From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 26 March - 23 June 1996.


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