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Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Spiky Garland Group, Etruscan, ca. 3rd century B.C.
Mirror
ca. early 3rd century B.C.
Cast bronze with incised decoration
25 × 12.2 cm (9 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S
1999.9.29
Culture:
Etruscan
Period:
Hellenistic
Classification:
Tools and Equipment
Provenance:
Molly and Walter Bareiss; Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1999.
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions, 1999,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2000): 170, ill.
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 198–99 (detail), 201, pl. 185.
Meghan C. Freeman, “Ambiguous Reflections: A Unique Etruscan Mirror at Yale,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2016): 91–94.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
