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Requires Photography
Plaque, rectangular, repoussé
Greek, East Greek
Orientalizing Period
640–630 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Electrum
Dimensions
4.5 x 3.3 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number99.385
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsJewelry, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
DescriptionCentaur to left, carrying animal in left hand. Large piece irregularly broken from upper right corner. Other small parts of edge missing. From Kameiros.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: W. H. Forman Collection; inherited from him by Mrs. Burt and then, about 1889, by A. H. Browne; by 1899: with Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 Wellington Strand, London, W.C. (sale of the Forman collection, June 19-22, lot 397, partial; said to have come from Kameiros); 1899: with Edward Perry Warren; 1899: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)