Lot 14
  • 14

An Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Dancing Youth, circa 500-480 B.C.

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • An Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Dancing Youth
  • Bronze
  • Height 5 1/4 in. 13.3 cm.
From a candelabrum, standing on a beaded circular base with his weight on the right leg, holding clappers in his hands, and wearing a short wrap-around garment with overfold in front and finely cross-hatched border below, his hair radiating from the crown and surmounted by a diadem in front.

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York [I.739], June 19th, 1980

Condition

Excellent, some areas of pitting.
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