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LOT 0547
Etruscan Bronze Statuette
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/4 in. (49.6 grams total, 84 mm including stand).
Standing figure wearing a tunic with straight arms placed to the sides, with exaggerated facial features including bulbous eyes; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
Cf. a bronze statuette in similar style in bronze in Torelli, M., Gli Etruschi, Monza, 2000, p.180, and no.146.
FootnotesThe statuette belongs to a group of standing archaic statuettes, with short hair rendered by incised lines. They are usually depicted with legs together, arms at the sides or bent forward if they are holding objects (see the augur statuette from Lapis Niger, Rome).
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