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LOT 0083
Etruscan Brownware Impasto Vase
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
5 5/8 in. (328 grams, 14.4 cm).
Biconical with a broad neck, everted rim and two high handles, shoulder decorated with high vertical ridges with conical knop at centre to two faces.
ProvenanceEx private Mister X. (1931-2017) collection.
Sold in the benefit of the 'Croix-Rouge of Monaco'.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 96.18.84, for a broadly similar example.
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LOT 0083
Etruscan Brownware Impasto Vase
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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Greek High-Glazed Black Ware Mug
4th-3rd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
With flared base, bulbous body. tapering shoulder and flared mouth with everted rim, loop handle. 69 grams, 71 mm
Private collection, Sussex, UK; acquired 1975-1990. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
4th-3rd century B.C.Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £11,111
Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club lifted in his right hand behind his head, his hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath a 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, lot 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. -
Greek Bronze Handled Mirror
5th century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
The discoid head with waisted neck and tapering tang, slightly recessed to one face. 350 grams, 22 cm
Acquired in Europe before 1990.
