Large bronze basin

This impressive bronze bowl has a large flaring lip with a conical foot and two plain upturned handles decorated with four rings and terminating in elegant female's heads. The outturned, convex lip has a stepped inner rim.

Period

Archaic period, 6th century B.C.

Dimension

H. 13.5 cm (5 ^5⁄16 in) D. 43 cm (16 ^59⁄64 in)

Coins & Antiquities Ltd., London, 15 July 1981

F. B. Tarbell
Catalogue of bronzes, etc., in Field Museum of natural history. Reproduced from Originals in the Mational Museum of Naples, in: Anthopological series, Chicago 1909, vol. VII, pl. 93 no 195

Mary and Cornelius Vermeule
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 1971, 334f. ill 472