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Property from an English Private Collection (Lots 44-63)
Lot 46

An Etruscan bronze kouros

3 July 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£6,000 - £8,000

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An Etruscan bronze kouros

Circa early 5th Century B.C.
9.7cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Eric de Kolb (1916-2001) collection, New York.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1985.
R. G. collection, Mauritius, assembled by Dr. Leo Mildenberg, acquired from the above in 1986.
Anonymous sale; Gorny and Mosch, Munich, 20 June 2012, lot 275.
New York art market.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams London, Antiquities, 28 November 2017, lot 82.
Private English collection, acquired at the above sale.

Exhibited:
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, Classical Art from a New York Collection, 27 September-16 November 1977, cat. no. 92.

Naked kouroi with open arms such as the present lot have been interpreted as figures of worshippers; see J. Chamay (ed.), The Art of the Italic Peoples from 3000 to 300 B.C., Napoli, 1993, p. 257.

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