About the Artwork
Torch-Holder
between the 5th and 3rd century BC
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Etruscan
Unknown
Bronze
height: 3 1/2 inches (8.8 cm) diameter of body: 8 1/4 inches (21.1 cm) length: 15 1/4 inches (38.7 cm)
Metalwork
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Gift of The Etruscan Foundation, Inc.
61.139
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Uffizi (Florence, Italy)
Museo Archeologico (Florence, Italy)
1961-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Peck, W., "Etruscan Pottery and Bronzes," Bulletin of the DIA, vol 41, no 3, 1962, pp 52-53 n.1.
Caccioli, D. A., The Villanovan, Etruscan and Hellenistic Collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, vol. 14, Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2009, cat. no. 45, pp. 84-5, ill. pl. 50.
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Etruscan, Torch-Holder, between the 5th and 3rd century BC, Bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of The Etruscan Foundation, Inc., 61.139.
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