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LOT 0845
Etruscan Bronze Telamon Statuette
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
2 in. (44 grams total, 51 mm including stand).
Appliqué formed as a kneeling male with arms bent supporting a shelf above the shoulders; the hair cut short but thick above the ears, the nose and beard modelled with pointed profile; 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.
The figure is strangely proportioned with oversized head and small legs; possibly an atlant or support from a vessel.
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