21 giug 2023 anni - 117/ EXPLORE (1): with a distinctive Art Deco statue labelled KESTOS

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The search tools on the web platform of EXPLORE, the Visual Contagions project at the Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva, permit a comparison of a selected image with similar images in thousands of printed periodicals ... Come Play Along! (1).
In this post our selected image is a unique English Art Deco statue, seemingly never exhibited nor recorded in any Art Journal or other available sources. It is a life-sized sculpture, labelled KESTOS on the base, presently owned by The John Bright Collection, produced in the mid1930s to promote the KESTOS bra of the English underwear manufacturer Kestos, founded in London in 1925 (2) (3).
The firm took its name from Aphrodite's famous 'kestos himas poikilos' = embroidered girdle in Homer's Iliad, Book 14 (4).
Read more:
https://kbender.blogspot.com/2023/06/117-exploring-explore-with-distinctive.html?view=magazine
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kestos

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