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THREE ETRUSCAN BRONZE DANCING NUDE MALE FIGURES

Each nude with their arms raised, one kneeling to the left, another to the right, and one with both legs spread; a perforated tenon below for attachment to a tripod or bowl.
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, nos. 88-09, 88-10 and 88-11.
The figures between the horse-protomes above the legs of a tripod from Vulci in the British Museum, although female and moving from left to right, are posed in similar fashion: cf. G. Giglioli, L’Arte Etrusca, Milan 1935, pl. CII, Fig.1

Ex Royal-Athena Galleries, 1989; John Kluge collection, Charlottesville VA.

Chiusi, ca. 520 BC

H. Each: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm.)

Gods & Mortals II, no. 11
Art of the Ancient World, 1988, no. 24

CNH142
$22,500


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