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Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
CYPRO-ARCHAIC I, 750-600 B.C.
9 1/2 in. (1.29 kg total, 24 cm including stand).
Carved in the round as an advancing bull with its tail placed between the hindlegs, thick fur to the throat; the fill between the legs with traces of cross-hatching in red pigment; old collector's label '477' to flange base; mounted on an old wooden collector's stand with painted numeral '193' to one face. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Base and collection numbers suggesting it may have been deaccessioned from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York between 1941-1980, thence by descent.
with Bonhams, London, 24 October 2012, no.3.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
PUBLISHED:
L.P. di Cesnola, A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, vol. I, Boston, 1885, pl. 98.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Hastings, E.A., The Sculpture from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqâra 1964-76, London, 1997, pl. LV, for a bull or bull calf statue associated with the Apis cult.
FOOTNOTES:
This possibly represents a bull or bull calf associated with the Apis cult.
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