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Lot 47

An Etruscan bronze goddess

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Etruscan bronze goddess
Circa late 5th Century B.C.
Standing with her left leg advanced, wearing a long chiton belted at the waist with a thick rounded collar, her arms held out in front of her, bent at the elbows, holding a long staff in her right hand, her hair centrally parted and combed into thick waves projecting outward, the details incised, 9.5cm high

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Provenance:
Robert Knight Collection, UK, acquired in 2004.
Christie's, New York, The Morven Collection of Ancient Art, 8 June 2004, lot 428.
With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989.
Swiss private collection before 1989.

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.89-71.

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