Lot 14
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A FISHERMAN, LATE HELLENISTIC, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C. | A Bronze Figure of a Fisherman

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • bronze
  • Height 12.5 cm.
running with his left foot forward and left arm raised, and wearing a short tunic falling from the left shoulder across the chest and secured with a belt, his head turned up and slightly to his left, his hair bound in a thick rolled headband, the eyes formerly inlaid.

Provenance

Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, and Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York
Mrs Albert Davis Lasker, acquired from the above in April 1970 (Christie's, London, December 12th, 1990, no. 179, illus.)
European private collection, 1990-2009

Literature

Andre Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York, Art of Ancient Italy: Etruscan, Greeks and Romans. An exhibition organized in cooperation with Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basle, Switzerland, April 4th-29th, 1970, p. 65, no. 105, illus.
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