Etruscan Wine Strainer

8th-3rd century BC. A bronze wine strainer with broad pan and inturned sidewall, tapering handle; the pan with central pierced rosette and notched rim, the handle with low-relief figure in draped mantle advancing with one hand raised on a beaded piriform panel with finial ivy-leaf and berries, suspension ring with antenna finial, incised knot motif. 183 grams, 26cm (10 1/4"). Property of a European gentleman living in London; previously from an English collection formed in the 1980s.
Condition Report: Fine condition, cracked.