AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE BALSAMARIUM, CIRCA LATE 4TH/3RD CENTURY B.C.

AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE BALSAMARIUM, CIRCA LATE 4TH/3RD CENTURY B.C.

in the form of the head of a woman, possibly the goddess Turan or a Lasa, gazing upwards and wearing disk-and-pendant earrings, her finely engraved ribbed coiffure bound in a diadem or braid , and swept back into a spiral chignon above the nape of the neck, the eyelashes, eyebrows, and pupils delicately incised; together with a separately cast disk base, flanged cylindrical stopper, and suspension handle with chains.
Height without cover 9.5 cm.

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Provenance:
J.J. Klejman, New York

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., acquired from the above (Sotheby Park Bernet, New York, November 22nd, 1974, no. 252, illus.)