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Three feet of cista
Italic, Etruscan
Classical Period
Late 5th–early 4th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Height x width: 7.8 x 8.7 cm (3 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number99.475a-c
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 526; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 126 (additional published references).
DescriptionThree feet of a toiletry box (cista). On each foot, a wreathed or filleted boy with two pair of wings is kneeling, hands on his hips, on a lion's paw. Nipples, stomach muscles, and both sets of feathers are represented by incision. One of the lower wings on two of the feet is slightly broken. The holes on the upper wings are functional to nail the feet to the body of the cista. Bright green patina.
ProvenanceBy 1898-9: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: Bought in Rome 1898-9. [with 99.476]); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, 1899, for $ 32,500.00 (this is the total price for MFA 99.338-99.542)