Lot Essay
The patera, a bronze vessel with the handle commonly in the shape of a kouros, was widely distributed throughout Magna Graecia, except Sicily, and continuously produced from the 6th Century B.C. to the 1st Century A.D. For a similar example of handle in the shape of a kouros in the round with raised arms from southern Italy now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria , inv. no. 9481, cf. C Rolley, Greek Bronzes, Fribourg, 1986, p. 135, no. 116.