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A FRAGMENTARY GREEK BRONZE INSCRIBED BACK-PLATE FROM AN ANATOMICAL CUIRASS

Lot 15
30.01.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 15 | A FRAGMENTARY GREEK BRONZE INSCRIBED BACK-PLATE FROM AN ANATOMICAL CUIRASS
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
A FRAGMENTARY GREEK BRONZE INSCRIBED BACK-PLATE FROM AN ANATOMICAL CUIRASS

MAGNA GRAECIA, CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 400-370 B.C.

14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high





Provenance

Roger Budin (1928-2005), Geneva, later transferred to the Thétis Foundation, by 1986.

Antiquities from the Thétis Collection, the Property of the Thétis Foundation; Antiquities, Sotheby’s, London, 23 May 1991, lot 78.

Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin (Inv. no. AG495/R125).

The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, Christie's, London, 28 April 2004, lot 92.

Antiken de Sammlung Axel Guttman, Auktion 56, Hermann Historica, Munich, 8 October 2008, lot 54.

Acquired by the current owner from the above.



Literature

J.-L. Zimmerman, "La fin de Falerii Veteres: Un témoignage archéologique,” The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 14, 1986, p. 40, n. 26.

J.-L. Zimmermann, Collection de la Fondation Thétis, Geneva, 1987, pp. 2, 69-71, 180, no. 128, fig. 237.

J.-L. Zimmermann, Du thorax à la lorica. Cuirasses figurées et commemoratives d'Italie méridionale, Geneva, 1989, pp. 7-12.

P. G. Guzzo, "Armi antiche di qua e di la delle Alpi: A proposito di due recenti cataloghi," Bollettino d'arte, vols. 62-63, 1990, pp. 140-141.

Minerva, May/June 1991, ill. inside cover.

H. Born, Restaurierung antiker Bronzewaffen: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, vol. 2, Mainz, 1993, pp. 66-68, fig. 30.

G. Pugliese Carratelli, The Western Greeks, Milan, 1996, p. 653.

L. Hansenn Die Panzerung der Kelten: Eine diachrone und interkulturelle Untersuchung eisenzeitlicher Rüstungen, Kiel, 2003, p. 201, Liste 4.

S. Spatafora, “Vincitori e vinti: sulla deposizione di armi e armature nella Sicilia di età arcaica,” in Guerra e pace in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo antico (VIII-III sec. a.C.): Arte, prassi e teoria della pace e della guerra, vol. I, Pisa, 2006, p. 219.

G. Tagliamonte, “... et vetera spolia hostium detrahunt templis porticibusque... Annotazioni sul riuso delle armi dedicate nell'Italia antica,” Pallas, no. 70, 2006, pp. 273, 287, fig. 8.

L. Börner, “Das ‘Thetis-Fragment,“ in L. Börner, ed., Amazonen: Geheimnisvolle Kriegerinnen, Speyer, 2010, pp. 62-63.

C. Levett, "Pieces of the Classical Past,” Minerva, May/June 2011, p. 52, fig. 8.

M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 188, fig. 16.

M. Burns, "Beware of Greeks bearing arms," Minerva, March/April 2012, pp. 26-27, fig. 7.

S. Hußman, “The Siege of Syracuse, ‘To the victors most glorious,’” Ancient Warfare, vol. VI, issue 5, 2013, p. 43.

V. Torres-Hugon, "Hoplite, le premier guerrier de l'histoire," Antiquité (special edition), Autumn 2017, p. 37.

V. Torres-Hugon, Hoplite: Le premier guerrier de l'histoire, Saint-Martin-des-Entrées, 2018, p. 37.

R. Graells i Fabregat, "Le corazze nei santuari dell’Italia meridionale,” in R. Graells i Fabregat and F. Longo, eds., Armi votive in Magna Grecia, Mainz, 2018, pp. 174-175, fig. 21.

R. Graells i Fabregat, “Una corazza italica da un santuario siciliano?,” in A. Scari, et al., eds., Armi a Kasmenai: Offerte votive dall'area sacra urbana, Paestum, 2018, pp. 117-119, fig. 68.



Exhibited

Geneva, Musée d'art et d'historie, Collection de la Fondation Thétis, 1987.

Speyer, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Amazonen: Geheimnisvolle Kriegerinnen, 5 September 2010-13 February 2011.

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA187).
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Ancient Art
Place of origin:Ancient Greece, Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Ancient Art & Antiquities
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