Standing nude with arms held straight at the sides, hair curled up at the edge; probably a monumental fitting; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

LITERATURE:
See Mitten, D.G. & Doeringer, S.F., Master Bronzes of the Classical World, New York, 1968, pp.51-52, figs.33, 34, for type.

FOOTNOTES:
The small statuette is that of a naked youth, the so-called kouros, typical of archaic Greek sculpture of the 7th century B.C. Such representations underwent simplification in the early years of the 6th century B.C. with the Archaic smile transformed into something more akin to a grimace