Italic figural group of two men brewing, 1st millennium BC
Bronze
Height 6.8cm
9787
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Two naked, stylised figures face each other, pounding the contents of a tall vessel set between them. Facial features are moulded, their heads bald, their bodies naked. Solid cast, on an integral base with a tang beneath. Intact.
Provenance
Private collection, Paris, France; acquired some time before the mid-1970sMichael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, USA; acquired from Charles Ede in 2017
Literature
Compare Mario Moretti and Guglielmo Maetzke, The Art of the Etruscans (London, 1969), p.82-83
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