A Greek Bronze Figure of a Bull, Boeotian , circa early 5th Century B.C.

standing with the left legs slightly advanced, with long tufted tail, short dewlap, grooved folds on the neck, small ears beneath the fragmentary horns, finely engraved hair on the forehead, almond-shaped eyes with circular pupils, ribbed brows, and an incised dentate pattern on the upper lip.

Charles Gillet Collection
Marion Schuster, Lausanne
Mathilde de Goldschmidt Rothschild (Sotheby's, London, Antiquities from the Schuster Collection, July 10th, 1989, no. 80, illus.)
Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990
Christie's, New York, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, June 8th, 2004, no. 394, illus.)

"The Divine and the Domestic: Ancient Art from the Mediterranean," Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia, January 30th-March 22nd, 1998

Karl Schefold, Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst, catalogue of the exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Basel, June 18th-September 13th, 1960, Basel, 1960, p. 224, no. V 260, ill. p. 225, fig. 260

as shown and described, generally good, surface worn, proper left hindleg somewhat bent up
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