AN ETRUSCAN ALABASTER CINERARY URN LID

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.

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AN ETRUSCAN ALABASTER CINERARY URN LID
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.
For a woman, depicted reclining with her left elbow on a pillow, her head raised and facing outward, her right leg bent at the knee above her left, holding an attribute in her left hand and the handle of a leaf-shaped fan in her right, wearing a tunic and a voluminous mantle drawn up over the back of her head as a veil
23¼ in. (59 cm.) wide

Provenance

Paris Art Market, 1950s.
Ms. Luce Klein, New Rochelle, New York.

Lot Essay

The city of Volterra specialized in the production of stone urns in alabaster. The front of the urns often had mythological scenes in relief, while the lids, as here, show the deceased reclining. For a related example see pl. 17 in Cateni, Volterra, Il Museo Etrusco.

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