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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A GODDESS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A GODDESS, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
standing with the weight on her left leg and holding a pomegranate in her outstretched right hand, and wearing laced pointed-toe shoes, girdled chiton buttoned on the upper arms, mantle draped around the lower body and bunched up in her left hand against the hip, and disk earrings, her hair swept up above the forehead, surmounted by a tall knobbed diadem, and falling in long wavy strands over her neck and upper back, the shoelaces and hem finely incised.
Height 24.7 cm.
Padri Gesuiti del Collegio Romano, Museo Kircheriano, Rome, 18th century
De Sanctis Mangelli Collection, Rome (Ludwig Pollak, Rome, Excelsior Hotel, Collezione A. De Sanctis Mangelli, March 26th-28th, 1923, p. 15, no. 75, pl. 16)
Galerie Chenel, Paris, acquired at auction in Paris
acquired from the above by the present owner
Published
Contuccio Contucci, Musei Kirkeriani in Romano Soc. Jesu collegio Aerea, vol. 2, Rome, 1765, p. 21f., pl. 4
Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. 5, Paris, 1924, p. 105, no. 5 (line drawing after 1923 auction catalogue plate)
For an earlier Etruscan bronze figure once in the Museo Kircheriano, published by Contucci (op. cit., pl. 2), and sold in the 1923 sale of the De Sanctis Mangelli Collection (lot 248, pl. 5), see Christie's, New York, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, June 8th, 2004, no. 410.