A Sardinian Bronze Figure of a Warrior, circa 7th/6th century B.C.

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Description

Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

A Sardinian Bronze Figure of a Warrior

circa 7th/6th century B.C.

of highly stylized form, standing and holding a club resting on his shoulder in the right hand, and round shield with central boss in the left hand, and wearing leggings, short kilt, cuirass, ringed neck-guard, and crested helmet with fragmentary horns.

Height 16 cm.

private collection, Germany

Jacques Matossian, Egypt, to 1960

Marguerite Mallon, to 1965

acquired from the above in 1965

Published

Art Quarterly, vol. 29. no. 1, 1966, p. 71

Stephen A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik, and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Gallery. Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, New York, 1969, p.73, illus.

For closely related bronzes cf. C. Zervos, La Civilisation de la Sardaigne, Paris, 1954, figs. 176 (Giovanni Lilliu, Sculture della Sardegna Nuragica, Verona, 1966, no. 97) and 194.