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Both arms bent, left hand shading left eye. Lines indicate muscles on back and pleating of skin between buttocks and bust on the right side of the body. Hair is indicated by thin, parallel lines, and toes are individually drawn.

h. 4 x w. 4.5 cm

550-500BC

Bronze

Provenance

Ex collection Norbert Schimmel
With Sotheby's, New York, 16th December 1992, lot 46
Private French collection
With David Ghezelbash, Paris, prior to 2010
Acquired at Charles Ede Limited, London, 11th January 2011, lot 8820

Publications

V. P. Von Zabern, in O. White Muscarella (ed.), Ancient Art. The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 23
Sotheby's Sale, New York, 16th December 1992, lot 46
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 42 and 92
C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique. Le bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, 2016, p. 75, fig. 83 and p. 81

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Greek Bronze Statuette of a Seated Monkey

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