ID 888365
Lot 74 | A GREEK BRONZE ACHELOOS
Estimate value
$ 15 000 – 20 000
LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 500-450 B.C.
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) long
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby’s, London, 13-14 December 1982, lot 241.
Private Collection, U.S.
with Robin Symes, London.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above, 1988.
John Kluge (1914-2010), Charlottesville, acquired from the above, 1988.
The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, Christie's, New York, 8 June 2004, lot 396.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVI, 2005, no. 29).
Literature
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, p. 15, no. 88-87.
J.J. Herrmann, "From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection," Minerva, vol. 7, no. 2, 1996, p. 39, fig. 1.
J.M. Padgett, ed., The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art, Princeton, 2003, p. 335, n. 4.
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, 26 March-23 June 1996.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Classical antiquity, Archaic Period |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Ancient Art |
| Historical era: | Classical antiquity, Archaic Period |
| Place of origin: | Ancient Greece, Greece, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities, Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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