Ancient Hellenistic Greek Bronze Young Crouching African
Ancient Hellenistic Greek Bronze Young Crouching African
$15,500.00
Greek, Hellenistic, 3rd - 1st century B.C.
H: 4.7 cm
Serial: 3440
Provenance: Lennox Gallery, UK, 1992.
Published: Exotics of the Classical World, Phoenix Ancient Art, Geneva-New York, 2007, no. 22
The object is in cast bronze, but it is hollow. The space between the feet and the shins is pierced by a large triangular opening. The statuette may very well have been soldered to a support such as a furniture element or a leg of a tripod, etc.