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Handle
Italic, Etruscan
Classical Period
4th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Height x length: 16 x 15 cm (6 5/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number04.3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 511; Sculpture in Stone and Bronze (MFA), p. 125 (additional published references).
DescriptionA nude youth, in sandals, lies with his right hand under his head and his left on his thigh, making his body a bridge between two supports which rise from a plaque in the shape of a half-ellipse decorated with two rams' heads left and right of an inverted palmette. Green patina; much corroded.
ProvenanceSaid to have been found in a tomb at Città della Pieve, Italy [see note 1]. Possibly in the Giorgi Taccini family collection, Città della Pieve, sold in the late 19th century [note 2]. By 1904, sold by Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849 – d. 1919) in Florence to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Boston; 1904, gifted by Denman W. Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 14, 1904)
Notes:
[1] According to the museum’s records. Possibly one of a pair (see Berlin, Antikensammlung, inv. no. 7900).
[2] According to the museum’s records, Charles F. Murray got the handle from the “Giorgi Taccini Museum.”
Notes:
[1] According to the museum’s records. Possibly one of a pair (see Berlin, Antikensammlung, inv. no. 7900).
[2] According to the museum’s records, Charles F. Murray got the handle from the “Giorgi Taccini Museum.”