LARGE TERRACOTTA LID OF CINERARY URN

LARGE TERRACOTTA LID OF CINERARY URN

Recumbent child leaning on rectangular cushion, holding patera umbilicata in his right hand; draped around lower body. Set on large rectangular plinth, small, square vent hole on top of head. Pale, orange-beige clay with traces of red paint. Small piece missing from drapery, tiny chip from patera, otherwise intact.  

Ex Swiss priv. Coll., acq from Galeria Serodine 2001.
Dim. 40 x 28 x 22,5 cm.

Probably from Chiusi, 2nd cent. BC

cf. R.D, De Puma, Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum, NY 2013, p.118; 243-9; H.A.G. Brijder et alt., Kleur! Bij Grieken en Etrusken, Amsterdam 2005, p. 182, no. 293; L.B. van der Meer, De Etrusken, Den Haag 1977, pp. 62-3