Artworks

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 1904
Private 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, 1904

Literature

Compare Mary Comstock and Cornelius Vermeule, Greek Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston, 1971), no.472

Publications

Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (London, 1904), p.34, pl.XXIII, no.54