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Patera Support: Lasa

Patera Support: Lasa

300–175 BCE
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).
  • ?-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
  • 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
  • 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).
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