BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
AN ETRUSCAN LARGE BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF A KORE, LATE ARCHAIC, CIRCA 480 B.C.
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July 9, 01:35 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Property from a Swiss Private Collection
AN ETRUSCAN LARGE BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF A KORE, LATE ARCHAIC, CIRCA 480 B.C.
striding with her left foot forward and both forearms extended, a pomegranate in her left hand, a fragmentary flower in her right hand, and wearing boots with central tab, chiton with wavy pleats, and long close-fitting himation draped over the right shoulder and falling down the lower back, the neck of the chiton and hem of the himation with cross-hatched decoration, her hair radiating from the crown and bound and rolled up in a twisted fillet, the details finely engraved.
Height without tenons 21.4 cm.
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Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001)
Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979), Lugano, acquired from the above in 1962
by descent to the present owner
For a related bronze see Orvieto Etrusca, 1928, pl. 6, as Vertumnus (S. Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, vol. 6, 1930, p. 179, 1-2: https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idviewer/15467/184).
In a note dated February 25th, 1962, Leo Mildenberg quotes from an appraisal of this object by German Hafner, professor at the University of Mainz, who compares it to the bronze kore from Monteguragazza, now in Bologna (https://collezioni.genusbononiae.it/products/dettaglio/11357).
This lot appears as no. 16 in a partial inventory of the Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 25th, 1982.
The Mildenberg provenance and note for the present bronze were once erroneously thought to apply to another Etruscan kore in the Biaggi de Blasys Collection: Sotheby’s, London, December 3rd, 2019, no. 11.