ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art

Foot-Basin Handle with Hippocamps

AAT Object Form/Functionhandles (components)

AAT Object Form/Functionbasins (vessels)

AAT Object Form/Functionfigures (representations)

CultureEtruscan

PeriodClassical

Date4th Century BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineEx Brummer Collection, donated by the Brummer-Laszlo Family

Dimensions11 1/8 x 5 3/16 x 2 3/4 in. (28.3 x 13.1 x 7 cm)

Object number1998.013.003

Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - January 2011
Monsters, Demons & Winged Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 5 - June 19, 2011
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, June 20, 2011 - June 11, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 2014 - Present
Published ReferencesCatalogo delle pregevoli collezioni di oggetti d'arte e mobili antichi, spettanti al Signore Marchese di Rioffreddo ed ai Signori Gagliardi di Firenze (Rome: Casa di Vendite Jandolo et Tavazzi, 1908), number 517.
Brian F. Cook, "A Class of Etruscan Bronze Omphalos-Bowls", American Journal of Archaeology 72, no. 4 (October 1968), 344, note 38.
The Ernest Brummer Collection, Vol. II (Zurich: Galerie Koller, 1979), 94-97, number 547B.

ProvenanceEx coll. Marchese di Riofreddo and Signori Gagliardi, Florence, Italy, until at least 1908. With Jandolo e Tavazzi, Rome, Italy, April 27-May 15, 1908. Ex coll. William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), California. With Brummer Gallery, New York, New York, purchased from Hearst, January 19, 1943. With H. Khan Monif, New York, New York, purchased from Brummer, March 5, 1949. Ex coll. Ernest Brummer (1891-1964), New York, New York, by 1964. With Galerie Koller AG, Zurich, Switzerland, October 16-19, 1979. Ex coll. Ella Brummer (1900-1999), New York, New York.

Status

On view

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