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A pair of Etruscan bronze cista feet
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7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Etruscan bronze cista feet
Circa 4th Century B.C.
Each in the form of a winged female deity, perhaps Lasa, standing on a beaded groundline with voluted ends, surmounting a lion paw, the deity depicted frontally with her feet turned out, pulling her tunic to the right with her right hand and up over her shoulder with her left hand, wearing a necklace and a beaded fillet in her hair, with her wings upraised, the details of the feathers incised, with two perforations and a tenon on the reverse for attachment, 10.3cm high (2)

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Provenance:
Robert Knight Collection, UK, acquired in 2008.
Christie's, New York, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, 08 June 2008, lot 435.
With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1990.
With Pino Donati, Lugano, before 1980s.
Dr. Athos Moretti (1907-1993) Collection, Bellinzona, acquired between 1930s-60s.

Published:
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, no.90-06.

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