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LOT 0546
Etruscan Bronze Handled Mirror with Robed Female Dancers
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
10 1/4 in. (300 grams, 26 cm including stand).
Disc mirror with handle comprising: slightly dished mirror with thick rim and low-relief image of two females dancing with a sash connecting them; punched crescents in the field; reverse with dentilled border; D-section handle with angled junction and knop finial; provided with a custom-made stand; later engraving.
Provenance
Acquired Sotheby's, New York, U.S.A., early 1980s.
Private New York City collection.
Acquired from Arte Primitivo, New York City, U.S.A., 7 December 2016, lot 342.
Private collection of Professor Kenneth Graham, London, UK.
Accompanied by the original catalogue page and a print-out of the online listing.
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LOT 0546
Etruscan Bronze Handled Mirror with Robed Female Dancers
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
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The presence of Achaeans in Cyprus, in late Cypriot II, also significantly influenced the life of the island from a ceramic production point of view. The social changes and new habits that developed among the elites of the main urban centres of the island included elaborate funerary displays, a means through which the emerging elite could express its identity and differentiate itself from other social groups. The ceramic forms were often cups intended for elaborate libation rituals, symposia, or ceremonies equivalent to Near Eastern marzeah, during which drinking services including kraters for mixing wine, cups and jugs were used. Alongside the more elaborate Achaean pottery, local Cypriot pottery (white-slip and base-ring) was still in use.
