Hellenistic basin with leaf-shaped handles, c.2nd century BC-1st century AD
Bronze
Height 24cm, diameter 40.5cm
10221
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The impressive basin has two ornamental handles, boldly modelled in the form of leafy vegetable-stems which terminate in elegant plane leaf attachment plates. The outturned, convex lip has a stepped inner rim decorated with encircling incised bands. Set on a tall and comparatively narrow foot. Some scattered areas of fill to the outside and inside, with consolidation to some cracks. Foot and handles reaffixed.
Provenance
S.E. Kennedy, UK; acquired prior to 1904Private collection, France
Private collection, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; acquired 2009
Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France; acquired from Charles Ede in 2017, inventory number MMoCA845
Exhibitions
Burlington Fine Arts Club, ‘Ancient Greek Art’, London, 1904Literature
Compare Mary Comstock and Cornelius Vermeule, Greek Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston, 1971), no.472Publications
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (London, 1904), p.34, pl.XXIII, no.54
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