Mirror with a Banquet Scene

second half 4th century BCE (Hellenistic)

16.3 cm 31 cm

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The mirror is cast as one piece with its handle. The handle ends with an animal’s head. The edge, which is thicker than the body, carries a pattern of diagonal lines. The front of the handle has a cast stalk pattern, ending in a palmette at the top. Above the palmette at the b...

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[Said to be from Palestrina, found in the Cista Pasinati, 1864]. Alessandro Castellani, Rome, by 1883, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Collection Alessandro Castellani, Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 1884, p. 48, lot 426; Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Culture
Etruscan
Medium
bronze
Genre
mirrors

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