Lot 116
  • 116

Six Antiquities, 2nd millennium B.C./1st Century B.C.

Estimate
1,800 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Six Antiquities
  • Heights 8 7/8 to 1 7/8 in. 9.1 to 4.8 cm
comprising a bronze plaque cast in the form of a ram with long tail, head cast in the round, and two loops at the back, Near Eastern, 2nd Millennium B.C., a Piravend bronze votive figure with horned head and arms held out, circa 9th Century B.C., a bronze horse and rider, the horse with body of triangular section and zigzag-engraved head and neck, the rider holding onto the mane, Caspian area, circa 8th Century B.C., an Etruscan bronze figure of Herakles wielding a fragmentary club in his raised right hand and carrying a lion skin on his left forearm, circa 5th Century B.C., an Umbrian bronze figure of highly attenuated form with straight spindly legs, long slender torso, and short tapering arms, and wearing a finely incised belt, the facial features incised, 5th/4th Century B.C., and a Colima terracotta figure of a man standing and holding a puppy at his right shoulder, details painted and applied, Mexico, circa 1st Century B.C.

Provenance

J.J. Klejman, New York, March 1966, for the first and third
Carlebach Gallery, New York, April 1960 (as Sardinian), for the second
Casa d'Arte Bruschi, Florence, May 1957, for the fourth