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Lot 93

Two Canosan terracotta horses and riders

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28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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Two Canosan terracotta horses and riders
Apulia, Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C.
The horses in full gallop with raised forelegs, ridged manes and topknots, and zigzag tails, the bridles with applied disc-shaped phalerae, the riders wearing cuirasses and Pilos helmets, their right arms held aloft for now-missing weapons, all with remains of red, blue and pink pigment and white slip, horse 17cm high max.; rider 19cm high max.

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8-9 December 1986, lots 285 and 286.
Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above sale.

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