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Property formerly in the Collection of Jan Mitchell

A Greek Terracotta Figure of a Kouros, circa 1st half of the 5th Century B.C.

Lot Closed

July 7, 03:43 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property formerly in the Collection of Jan Mitchell

A Greek Terracotta Figure of a Kouros

circa 1st half of the 5th Century B.C.

 

standing on a rectangular base with his left leg slightly advanced, his hands held to his sides, and wearing a long garment falling from his left shoulder, his hair falling in long tresses over the front of the shoulders.

Height 12.4 cm.  

Jan Mitchell (1913-2009), New York, probably acquired in the 1960s or earlier

by descent to the present owner

For the type, including reference to four examples in the Louvre and one in the British Museum, see R. Kekulé von Stradonitz, Die antiken Terrakotten (Band III): Die Typen der figürlichen Terrakotten, Berlin, 1903, p. 42, no. 5.

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010283780

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010126389

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010126390

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010126387

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1864-1007-1394