id: 125796 accession number: 1947.68 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.68 updated: 2022-09-10 10:02:15.296000 Patera Support: Lasa, 300–175 BC. Italy, Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC. Bronze with silver inlays; overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.68 title: Patera Support: Lasa title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 300–175 BC creation date earliest: -300 creation date latest: -175 current location: 102D Pre-Roman creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, Etruscan, 3rd or early 2nd Century BC technique: bronze with silver inlays department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Etruscan type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Mirrors: Art and Symbol opening date: 1984-07-03T04:00:00 Mirrors: Art and Symbol. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3, 1994-January 27, 1985). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (Nov. 16, 1988-Jan. 8, 1989); The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Feb. 9 - April 9, 1989); Museum of Fine Arts Boston (May 9 - July 9, 1989). --- PROVENANCE Henry Daguerre, Paris, France sold to Brummer Gallery date: ?-1926 footnotes: citations: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to William Randolph Hearst date: 1926-1926 footnotes: citations: William Randolph Hearst date: 1926-? footnotes: citations: International Studio Art Corp., sold to Brummer Gallery date: ?-1940 footnotes: citations: Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1940-1947 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This elaborate figure served as a handle or support for a patera, a shallow dish. digital description: Standing on a triangular base, this winged female figure twists her body while admiring herself in the small mirror held in her left hand. Nearly nude, she wears sandals as well as a leopard or panther skin and jewelry inlaid with silver. Above her head and wings, a small portion of a patera, or shallow offering dish, survives. Inscriptions identify similar winged female figures elsewhere in Etruscan art as Lasas, often together with Turan (an Etruscan goddess analogous to the Greek Aphrodite). wall description: Because the Etruscans have left us few written records, we do not know exactly who or what a Lasa was, or even whether she was a major or minor deity. Unlike early Etruscan statuettes, which seem very flat and emphasize pattern, this female twists and turns in a spiral like Hellenistic Greek figures. She was originally the handle-stand of an offering dish. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d. page number: N4849 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/15761/rec/33 Wunderlich, Silvia A. "A Bronze Patera Handle." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 7 (1947). page number: pp. 164-66 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141387 Fasti Archeologici Vol. II (1947). page number: p. 183-4, No. 1542, fig. 41 url: Cooney, John D. "Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (1968). page number: pp. 262-271, fig. 13 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152230 Galestin, M. C. Etruscan and Italic Bronze Statuettes. Warfhuizen: [publisher not identified], 1987. page number: p. 107 url: Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. page number: No. 50, pp. 267-271. url: Kozloff, Arielle P. Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989. page number: p. 11 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n25 Treister, Michail. "Etruscan Objects in the North Pontic Area and the Ways of Their Penetration," Instituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi Ed Italici Firenze Studi Etruschi Vol. LVII (1991). page number: plate 20 url: Brendel, Otto, and Francesca R. Serra Ridgway. Etruscan Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. page number: p. 412, ill. 312 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.68/1947.68_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.68/1947.68_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.68/1947.68_full.tif