Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
An Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Woman, circa 425-400 B.C.
Lot Closed
July 6, 01:02 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Swiss Private Collection
An Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Woman
circa 425-400 B.C.
standing with the weight on her right leg, the right arm akimbo, and holding a dove in her extended left hand, and wearing a chiton and himation draped over the left shoulder and lower body, her head turned to her left, with centrally parted hair surmounted by a beaded diadem, the details finely engraved and stippled.
Height without tenons 14.5 cm
Leo Mildenberg (1913-2001), Zurich
Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979), acquired from the above in 1962
by descent to the present owner
Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979), acquired from the above in 1962
by descent to the present owner
This lot appears as no. 9 in a partial inventory of the Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 25th, 1982.