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Patera Support: Lasa

300–175 BC

Italy, Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC

Bronze with silver inlays

Overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.68

Location

102D Pre-Roman

Fun Fact

This elaborate figure served as a handle or support for a <em>patera</em>, a shallow dish.

Description

Standing on a triangular base, this winged female figure twists her body while admiring herself in the small mirror held in her left hand. Nearly nude, she wears sandals as well as a leopard or panther skin and jewelry inlaid with silver. Above her head and wings, a small portion of a patera, or shallow offering dish, survives. Inscriptions identify similar winged female figures elsewhere in Etruscan art as Lasas, often together with Turan (an Etruscan goddess analogous to the Greek Aphrodite).

Provenance
?-1926
Henry Daguerre, Paris, France sold to Brummer Gallery
1926-1926
Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to William Randolph Hearst
1926-?
William Randolph Hearst
?-1940
International Studio Art Corp., sold to Brummer Gallery
1940-1947
Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1947-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. N4849 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
Wunderlich, Silvia A. "A Bronze Patera Handle." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947). pp. 164-66 www.jstor.org
Fasti Archeologici Vol. II (1947). p. 183-4, No. 1542, fig. 41
Cooney, John D. "Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (1968). pp. 262-271, fig. 13 www.jstor.org
Galestin, M. C. Etruscan and Italic Bronze Statuettes. Warfhuizen: [publisher not identified], 1987. p. 107
Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. No. 50, pp. 267-271.
Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989. p. 11
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 10 archive.org
Treister, Michail. "Etruscan Objects in the North Pontic Area and the Ways of Their Penetration," Instituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi Ed Italici Firenze Studi Etruschi Vol. LVII (1991). plate 20
Brendel, Otto, and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway. Etruscan Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. p. 412, ill. 312
Exhibition history

The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (Nov. 16, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Feb. 9 - April 9, 1989); Museum of Fine Arts Boston (May 9 - July 9, 1989).

Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3, 1994-January 27, 1985).

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