A Greek Bronze Figure of Zeus, 6th Century B.C.
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July 5, 02:45 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Greek Bronze Figure of Zeus
6th Century B.C.
striding with his left leg advanced and holding 🦋a rolled thunderbolt in his raised right hand and an eagle in his extended left hand, with full beard, his hair bound in a fillet, arranged in corkscrew curls over the forehead, and falling in long tresses over the shoulders and in a broad mass of seven tresses over the back.
Height 10.8 cm.
✃Leo Biaggi de Blasy🌜s (1906-1979), Lugano, acquired in the 1950s/1960s
private collection, by descent🍨 from th♔e above (Sotheby's, London, December 3rd, 2019, no. 7, illus.)
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
For two archaic bronze figures of Zeus holding coiled thunderbolts see E. Walter-Karydi, "Bronzen aus Dodona. Eine Epirotische Erzbildnerschule," Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, vol. 23, 1981, figs. 33 (Munich) and 3✨4 (Athens).
This lot🍨 appears as no. 2 in a partial invꦅentory of the Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 25th, 1982.