id:			153212
accession number:	1986.185
share license status:	CC0
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Vessel Ornament of Reclining Lyre-player, probably 400–375 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze with gilding traces; overall: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer, 1986.185

title:				Vessel Ornament of Reclining Lyre-player
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creation date:			probably 400–375 BCE
creation date earliest:		-400
creation date latest:		-375
current location:		102D Pre-Roman
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer
copyright:			

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culture:	Etruscan
technique:	bronze with gilding traces
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Etruscan
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1986
	opening date:   1987-02-04T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1986</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).

	title:		Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection
	opening date:   1989-02-14T05:00:00
	<i>Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 11, 1989).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of the Marchese di Riofreddo e Gagliardi
	date: ?-1908
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	William R. Hearst, sold to Brummer Gallery
	date: ?-1943
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	Brummer Galleyr, New York, NY, sold to H.K. Montif
	date: 1943-1949
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	H.K. Montif
	date: 1949-
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	Ella Bache Brummer Collection, New York, NY, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1986
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1986
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		153211
	Vessel Ornament of Reclining Pipes Player, probably 400–375 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze; overall: 5.1 cm (2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer, 1986.184
	relationship: 	

	id: 		153631
	Vessel Ornament of Banqueter Holding an Omphalos, probably 400–375 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze; overall: 2 cm (13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer, 1987.157
	relationship: 	

	id: 		153632
	Vessel Ornament of Banqueter, probably 400–375 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze; overall: 2 cm (13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer, 1987.158
	relationship: 	

	id: 		154031
	Vessel Ornament of Banqueter, probably 400–375 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze; overall: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer, 1988.155
	relationship: 	

	id: 		154799
	Vessel Ornament of Banqueter, c. 400–375 BCE. Etruscan. Bronze; overall: 5.1 x 1.8 cm (2 x 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Ernest Brummer, 1989.38
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	Casa di Vendite Jandolo et Tavazzi (Rom). <em>Catalogo delle pregevoli collezioni di oggetti d'arte e mobili antichi, spettanti al Signor Marchese di Rioffreddo ed ai Signori Gagliardi di Firenze</em>. [1], [1]. 1908.
	page number: 	No. 517
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	The Brummer Gallery Records. Cloisters (Museum), n.d.
	page number: 	N5415
	url:		https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16028coll9/id/61519/rec/3

	Galerie Koller Zürich. The Ernest Brummer Collection, Vol I: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art. 1979.
	page number: 	No. 547E, cat: 95-97
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	GALERIE SPINK (Zurich). The Ernest Brummer Collection: Galerie Spink, Zürich. London: Spink and Son, 1979.
	page number: 	p. 25
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	Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (1987): 38-79.
	page number: 	Cat No. 17
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974

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