VesselsEtruscan5th-3rd century BCE

Kyathos with Beaded Decoration

mid 5th-3rd century BCE

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Etruscan

Period

Classical period to Hellenistic

Century

5th-3rd century BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

Dimensions

9.7 x 6 cm (3 13/16 x 2 3/8 in.)

Provenance

[Sotheby’s, New York, Antiquities and Islamic Art, May 29, 1987, lot 151]. G. Max Bernheimer, gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.

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