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Lot 48

An Etruscan bronze of a priestess

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

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An Etruscan bronze of a priestess
Circa 2nd-1st Century B.C.
Draped in a mantle over a sleeveless chiton with a hatched border, standing with her left knee bent and her weight on her right hip, her right arm outstretched with a phiale mesomphalos in her hand, and her left hand holding a round pyxis, and wearing a crescent shaped diadem in her centre-parted hair, pulled to a low pony tail, 10.5cm 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 449.
With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1983.
With Galerie Gunter Puhze, Freiburg, before 1983.

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.83-20.

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