An Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Kore, circa 525-500 B.C.

Of slender form standing with her arms held close to the body and holding the folds of her cloak in her left hand, and wearing boots with upward-pointed toes, long short-sleeved dress beneath her cloak, and pointed cap with narrow brim, the borders of her garments and cap with finely engraved and stippled chevron and floral ornament, her broad collar or necklace engraved with quatrefoils.

Mathias Komor, New York [H.691]
Mathilda "Tillie" Goldman, The Sherry Netherland, New York, acquired from the above in 1966
Phyllis A. Goldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, November 1980

Fifth Anniversary Loan Show, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, June 10th - October 20th, 1970

Very good, object has been cleaned down to layer of kuprite but still preserves incised detail, tip of pointed cap restored, back of figure below hair and above feet appears to have been cast open originally and was very carefully sealed in antiquity.
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For closely related examples see E. Richardson, Etruscan Votive Bronzes: Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic, Mainz am Rhein, 1983, p. 270, no. 9,  fig. 638 (Louvre 227), nos. 10 and 11 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1040 and 1041: E. Babelon and J.-A. Blanchet, Catalogue des bronzes antiques de la Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1895, pp. 450-451, nos. 1040-1041), and Christie's, New York, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, June 8th, 2004, no. 410 (formerly in the de Sanctis Mangelli Collection, Rome: L. Pollak, Collezione d'antichità, Rome, March 26th, 1923, p. 39, no. 248, pl. 5).