A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BULL, PROBABLY CRETAN, CIRCA LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

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Property from a Swiss Private Collection

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BULL, PROBABLY CRETAN, CIRCA LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

with large forward-curving horns, wide-set ears, and long straight tail falling down to a broad horizontal strut connecting the back of the hind legs, grooved linear ornament on the body.

Length 12.5 cm.; Height 12.2 cm

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Leo Mildenberg (1906-1979), Zurich

Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979), Lugano, acquired from the above on June 15th, 1961

by descent to the present owner

For related examples in painted terracotta see H. Th. Bossert, The Art of Ancient Crete, 1937, fig. 300.

This lot appears as no. 7 in an inventory of the Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, Lausanne, January 25th, 1982.