An ancient South Italian Greek bronze panoply of armor consisting of an emphatically muscled cuirass and back plate, the side plates with wave pattern borders, the nipples inlaid with copper; a Chalcidian type helmet with volutes and hinged cheek pieces with wave pattern elements, and a pair of anatomical full length greaves.
Magna Graecia.
Ca. 350 – 300 BC.
Formerly in the collection of Axel Guttmann, Berlin, (1944 – 2001), acquired in 1994 (AG 311; Christie’s, London, April 28, 2004, lot 102; with Royal-Athena galleries, New York; subsequently in a California private collection.
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