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Etrusco-Corinthian vase in the shape of a sitting monkey

Etruscan bronze oinochoe

Classification
oinochoe
Culture
Etruscan
Dimensions
height: 24.65 cm
Date
third quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Period
Etruscan Classical Period (550–475)
Material
bronze
Iconography
palmette/palmette frieze; monkey; lion's head; volute
Production place
Etruria
Present location
Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities
Provenance
Fejérváry–Pulszky Collection; Ráth, György Collection; Budapest, Hungarian National Museum
Inventory
66.142.A
ID
Hyp-521
References
Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 125; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 142–143; Márton, in ArchHung XI (1933); Jacobsthal 1944, 84., j. 1; Weber 1983, 24, 70, 228; Welt der Etrusker, 184, no. B 7.1; Pelagatti–Stibbe, in BABesch 74 (1999), 46; Szilágyi, J. Gy., in ScAnt 5 (1991), 526, no. 28, fig. 19
Trails
Etruscan vase painting