Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 83
An Etruscan bronze mirror
28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,805 inc. premium
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An Etruscan bronze mirror
Circa 3rd Century B.C.
The circular disk engraved on one side with two stylized standing figures in mirror-image juxtaposition, likely the Dioskouroi, each wearing a Phrygian cap and a long belted tunic, small ovals, probably stars, in the field between them, the reverse of the disc with a hatched border and dotted geometric incised decoration on the extension below, the handle terminal in the form of a stylised horse's head, 24.1cm long
Circa 3rd Century B.C.
The circular disk engraved on one side with two stylized standing figures in mirror-image juxtaposition, likely the Dioskouroi, each wearing a Phrygian cap and a long belted tunic, small ovals, probably stars, in the field between them, the reverse of the disc with a hatched border and dotted geometric incised decoration on the extension below, the handle terminal in the form of a stylised horse's head, 24.1cm long
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr Böttger (d. late 1990s) collection, Germany and Switzerland, acquired in the 1960s.
Mrs G. Landois (1925-2016) collection, Lugano-Montagnola, acquired from the above ca. 2001.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above.
For similar and further parallels, see an example at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, inv. no. 6714, as reproduced in Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum, U.S.A. 1: Midwestern Collections, Iowa, 1987, p. 15-16, pl. 1a-b.