Lotto 58 | ETRUSCAN BRONZE PLAQUE ca. 500 - 480 BC cm 17 x 16 Part of a furniture,...

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ETRUSCAN BRONZE PLAQUE ca. 500 - 480 BC cm 17 x 16 Part of a furniture,...

ETRUSCAN BRONZE PLAQUE
ca. 500 - 480 BC
cm 17 x 16

Part of a furniture, vehicle or door fitting. Showing Turms - Hermes, winged, draped and wearing winged sandals, striding moving to left in a field of flowers, holding a wreath. Similar Etruscan bronze plaques, but from the Archaic period, also in the Edward Perry Warren collection in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (cf. Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1971, no. 690).

Provenance. English private collection; said to be part of the Ferenc Pulszky sale, Paris, May 1868.