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LOT 0061
Etruscan Bronze Figure of an Acrobat
5TH CENTURY B.C.
4 1/2 in. (223 grams total, 11.5 cm high including stand).
Nude female in arched pose with arms angled backwards behind her head to form a handle; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceEx Charles Ede, 1989 [stock no. 4908].
Acquired from a Japanese collector, 2010.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12051-211850.
Cf. similar item in the British Museum London under accession no.1884,0614.34.
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Villanovan Terracotta Impasto Kyathos
8th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Blackware vessel with carination to the squat body, deep shoulder and rolled rim, low foot, single upstanding strap handle to the rear with split at the junction with the mouth. 286 grams, 14 cm wide
Ex Haynault Ventes Publiques Auction, Uccle, Belgium, 21 September, 2021, no.30. Property of a South Australian private collector, with collection reference 21.102. Accompanied by a collector's catalogue page including description and image.
Villanovan culture is often regarded as the earliest phase of Etruscan civilisation in the Iron Age. -
Archaic Greek Gold Bead Group
Circa 800-600 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
Matched pair of hollow-formed globe beads with surface of domes each with a granule cluster finial. 12.36 grams total, 31 mm each
From the property of the late Mr SM, London, UK, 1969-1999. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
4th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £10,000
Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 290 grams total, 14.5 cm high (19.5 cm high including stand)
Fine condition, excellent uniform patina.
with Sotheby's, New York, 21 November 1985, no.60. Ex private New York collection. 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 search certificate number no.11794-206497.
The statuette assumes the position of the 'attacking Hercules', which characterises numerous Etruscan statues of the hero of the classical era, however, with a less aggressive stance. The type was probably an Etruscan creation of the 5th century B.C., based on Greek models, which lasted until the end of the Hellenistic period, when Etruria was by then incorporated into the Roman world. This statuette, despite certain anatomical stylisation and an impersonal characterisation of the face, is the result of a good artistic and technical quality. The comparison of the artwork with the group identified as ‘Trieste’ from Colonna shows that this specimen is more recent and should be dated to the end of the Hellenistic Age. These small statuettes were probably offered ex-voto by the Romano-Etruscan aristocracy of the period.
