AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A KORE, CIRCA 525-500 B.C.

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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A KORE, CIRCA 525-500 B.C.

standing with feet together, her right hand extended, her left hand grasping a fold of drapery at her hip, and wearing shoes, chiton, and himation falling in zig-zagging folds around the lower body and with both ends draped over the front of the shoulders, bracelets, necklace with three pendants, disk earrings, and pointed cap (tutulus).

Height 15.7 cm.

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Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979), Lugano

by descent to the present owner

For a related figure see L. Bonfante, Etruscan Dress, 1975, p. 200, figs. 130-131 (Museo Archaeologico, Florence, inv. no. 261). Also see L. Pignoria, Le origini di Padova, 1625, pl. opposite p. 61 (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/buchseite/412162), discussed by G. P. Tabone, Bronzetti a figura umana etruschi e italici a nord del Po, doct. diss., 1996, pp. 25 38, and 52. For a simplified rendering of the same type In Padova see https://meb.comune.padova.it/it/musei/museo-archeologico/collezioni/bronzetti/kore-0.

This lot appears as no. 9 in a partial inventory of the Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection dated January 25th, 1982, Lausanne, Switzerland.