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LOT 0067
Cypriot Archaic Stone Statue of a Votary
IRON AGE, 6TH CENTURY B.C.
22 in. (7.3 kg, 55.5 cm including stand).
Standing erect on a square base wearing an ankle-length robe with mantle with segmented edge draped from the left shoulder, left arm straight at his side right arm bent and fist clenched at the breast; hair cut in a bobbed style with frontal band, collected in a Near-Eastern head-cloth falling down his back; bare feet with toes emphasised; 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.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12046-217199.
Literature
Cf. Museum of Fine Art Boston, Art of ancient Cyprus, Boston, 1972, figs.35, 37,43; Spiteris, T., The art of Cyprus, London, 1970, fig.p.169; Morris, D., The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford,1985; Karageorghis,V., Early Cyprus, Crossroads of Mediterranean, Los Angeles/Milano, 2002.
Footnotes
The sculpture is a good example of the mixed Near Eastern and Attic Ionian styles reflected in Cypriot sculpture. Cypriot art was often influenced by both Greek and Near Eastern styles, although in phase H of the archaic period (680-400 B.C.) the Greek influence became stronger, perhaps as a result of intensified trade and political contacts between the continent, Ionia and the Aegean islands.
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