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A Cypriot limestone votive cow

24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Cypriot limestone votive cow
Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.
Standing with the right foreleg advanced, with upright ears, the details of the dewlap, eyes and mouth articulated, 7¾in (19.6cm) long, mounted

Footnotes

Provenance:
Joseph Klein Collection, formed in New York between 1941 and 1980. Thence by descent.

Literature:
For a similar votive cow from the Cesnola Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, cf. M.B. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, Boston, 1976, no. 444.

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