ETRUSCAN BRONZE PLAQUE
ca. 500 - 480 BC
cm 45 x 7

Part of a furniture, vehicle or door fitting. At both ends of the slab, is the specular figure of winged Lasa, with a chiton and pointy shoes, striding moving holding a wreath in her hands. Similar Etruscan bronze plaques, but from the Archaic period, also in the Edward Perry Warren collection in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (cf. Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1971, no. 690).

Provenance. English private collection; said to be part of the Ferenc Pulszky sale, Paris, May 1868.