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In the form of the head of a youthful African, with a broad face and wide nose, the eyes inlaid with silver, the hair above the forehead and ears arranged in tight curls, the back of the vessel with shallow vertical striations, the top of the vessel with a wide circular opening, perhaps once fitted with separately-made lid.

h. 8.9 cm

2nd-1st century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Sotheby’s Antiquities Sale, New York, 2nd December 1988, lot 116
With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1989
John W. Kluge Morven Collection
Christie's: The Morven Collection of Ancient Art Sale, New York, 8th June 2004, lot 406
With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 2004
Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 10th December 2010, CNH141

Publications

Sotheby’s, Antiquities Sale, 2nd December 1988, lot 116
J. M. Eisenberg, in C.C. Vermeule and J. M. Eisenberg (ed.), Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, Royal-Athena Galleries, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 89-42
Christie's, Morven Collection Sale, New York, 8th June 2004, p. 80, fig. 406
J. M. Eisenberg, Gods & Mortals II, Bronzes of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2004, no. 6, p. 8
J. M. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, 2010, vol. XXI, p. 22, fig. 40
J. Boardman, "Greek Art" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 68, fig. 40

Exhibitions

From Olympus to the Underworld, Ancient Bronzes from the John W. Kluge Collection, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 26th March 1996 — 23rd June 1996
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, since 2011

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A Greek Bronze Figural Vase

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