AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE DINOS

CIRCA 500 B.C.

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AN ETRUSCO-CAMPANIAN BRONZE DINOS
CIRCA 500 B.C.
The globular, thin-walled vessel hammered from a single sheet, with a rounded bottom and sloping shoulders, the separately-made overhanging rim cast and riveted in place, its outer edge ornamented with a band of tongues below beading, the domed lid surmounted by a finial in the form of a nude youth standing on a disk base with his left leg advanced, his right arm raised with the palm facing outward, his left arm lowered and bent forward with the hand fisted, his cap-like hair with an incised fringe
16½ in. (41.9 cm.) high

來源

with Jean Mikas, Paris, 1950s.
European Private Collection.

拍品專文

Lidded bronze cinerary-urns were a specialty of Capua and its vicinity in Campania, where Greeks and Etruscans lived near each other. According to Haynes (Etruscan Bronzes, p. 268-269) the urns "were usually wrapped in a piece of cloth and placed within rock-cut containers." For a vessel of similar form, but more ornately embellished with a foot and additional figures on the lid, see p. 19 in Schätze und Meilensteine Deutscher Geschichte aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg. The central figure on the lid, a discus-thrower, displays the same style of musculature and facial details, suggesting they may come from the same workshop.