Images

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=07E800E93A9435F7EA25DEFC6B68F29D508A199BE7844C6E1FF4535F96284A85&s=24247294&se=982442326&v=5&f=1947.68_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=07E800E93A9435F77067A9C3443811378788C10D6A445419488F1F29BF28C8CA&s=24247294&se=982442326&v=1&f=%5C1947.68det01_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=07E800E93A9435F7503AD36691FCF743BD29CB28BF9F39F55D4B260D963207D3&s=24247294&se=982442326&v=1&f=%5C1947.68det02_o2.jpg

Additional Views

Nov 12, 2009

Patera Support: Lasa

300–175 BC

Italy, Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC

Bronze with silver inlays

Overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.68

Location

102D Pre-Roman

Did you know?

This elaborate figure served as a handle or support for a patera, a shallow dish.

Description

Standing on a triangular base, this winged female figure twists her body while admiring herself in the small mirror held in her left hand. Nearly nude, she wears sandals as well as a leopard or panther skin and jewelry inlaid with silver. Above her head and wings, a small portion of a patera, or shallow offering dish, survives. Inscriptions identify similar winged female figures elsewhere in Etruscan art as Lasas, often together with Turan (an Etruscan goddess analogous to the Greek Aphrodite).

Provenance

?-1926

Henry Daguerre, Paris, France sold to Brummer Gallery

1926-1926

Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to William Randolph Hearst

1926-?

William Randolph Hearst

?-1940

International Studio Art Corp., sold to Brummer Gallery

1940-1947

Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1947-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. N4849 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org

Wunderlich, Silvia A. "A Bronze Patera Handle." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947). pp. 164-66 www.jstor.org

Fasti Archeologici Vol. II (1947). p. 183-4, No. 1542, fig. 41

Cooney, John D. "Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (1968). pp. 262-271, fig. 13 www.jstor.org

Galestin, M. C. Etruscan and Italic Bronze Statuettes. Warfhuizen: [publisher not identified], 1987. p. 107

Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. No. 50, pp. 267-271.

Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989. p. 11

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 10 archive.org

Treister, Michail. "Etruscan Objects in the North Pontic Area and the Ways of Their Penetration," Instituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi Ed Italici Firenze Studi Etruschi Vol. LVII (1991). plate 20

Brendel, Otto, and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway. Etruscan Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. p. 412, ill. 312

Exhibition history

The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (Nov. 16, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Feb. 9 - April 9, 1989); Museum of Fine Arts Boston (May 9 - July 9, 1989).

Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).

Cite this page

{{cite web|title=Patera Support: Lasa|url=https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.68|year=300–175 BC|access-date=25 September 2023|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance, may not be currently accurate. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email collectionsdata@clevelandart.org.

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

All images and data available through Open Access can be downloaded for free. For images not available through Open Access, a detail image, or any image with a color bar, request a digital file from Image Services.

You are here:

Images

Patera Support: Lasa

Patera Support: Lasa

Italy, Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC

Location

Download and Share

Did you know?

Description

Contact us