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© Bruce M. White, 2006.
ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Cuirass Breastplate

AAT Object Form/Functioncuirasses
Place CreatedAfrati, Crete, Greece, Europe
CultureGreek, Cretan
PeriodArchaic
Date7th Century BCE
MediumBronze
Credit LineCarlos Collection of Ancient Art
Dimensions14 3/4 x 19 x 4 1/2 in. (37.5 x 48.3 x 11.4 cm)
Object number2003.009.001
Exhibition HistoryDadalische Kunst auf Kreta im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr., Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, 1970
Von Troja bis Amar: The Norbert Schimmel Collection New York (travelling show), Agyptische Museum, Berlin, Germany, March 18 - May 28, 1978; Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany, June 24 - September 3, 1978; Prahistorischen Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany, September 28, 1978 - January 6, 1979
Greek Art of the Aegean Islands, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, November 1, 1979 - February 10, 1980
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - June 5, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesHerbert Hoffman and A.E. Raubitschek, Early Cretan Armorers (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1972), 9, no. C8, pls. 28-29.
Jurgen Settgast, Von Troja bis Amarna: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, New York (Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1978), no 16.
Greek Art of the Aegean Islands: An Exhibition (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), 144-45 number 94.
Sotheby's New York, Antiquities from the Norbert Schimmel Collection (December 13, 1992), lot 37.
Hermann Born, Restaurierung antiker Bronzewaffen (Mainz: Sammlung Guttmann bei Zabern, 1993), no. XV.
Herman Born and Svend Hansen, Helme und waffen Alteuropas (Mainz: Sammlung Guttmann bei von Zabern, 2001), 87, pl. 70 (AG 432).
Christie's London, The Art of Warfare: The Axel Guttmann Collection, Part 1 (November 6, 2002), lot 50.
MCCM Newsletter, March - May 2003.
Jasper Gaunt, "New Galleries of Greek & Roman Art at Emory University: The Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva 16 (January/February 2005): 13-17.
ProvenanceEx coll. Norbert Schimmel (1904-1990), New York and Florida, from at least 1972. Sotheby's New York, December 13, 1992, lot 37. Ex coll. Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, Germany. Purchased by MCCM from Christies London, Sale 9482, November 6, 2002, lot 50.
Status
On view
Collections
  • Greek and Roman Art