AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE LEBES AND TRIPOD STAND, the conical cinerary urn with rounded base rising to a high shoulder decorated with a chased frieze of tongues, encircling lines below, with separately attached horizontal rim with beaded border and a disc lid, on a tripod circular stand with three lion's feet emerging from volutes, fine green patination, repair at base, circa 500 B.C.

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AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE LEBES AND TRIPOD STAND, the conical cinerary urn with rounded base rising to a high shoulder decorated with a chased frieze of tongues, encircling lines below, with separately attached horizontal rim with beaded border and a disc lid, on a tripod circular stand with three lion's feet emerging from volutes, fine green patination, repair at base, circa 500 B.C.
14½in. (37cm.) high incl. stand

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Cf. E. Macnamara, The Etruscans, The British Museum, London, 1993, p. 39, fig. 43 for a similar lebes from S. Maria di Capua Vetere, Campania. Such urns were typical products of Capua, although the inspiration for this form of urn came from Greece

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