Wine Ladle (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

5th century BC
Etruscan
Metalwork
Tools, Equipment, Utensils
copper alloy
Overall (at bowl of ladle holds): 13 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (34.93 × 8.89 cm)
99.209
These ladles were almost certainly made as a pair since the handle of the shorter ladle (with a single duck’s head) fits perfectly between the duck heads of the longer ladle. These bowls of Etruscan ladles from this period are shallower and broader than those produced in the Greek world.
Kathleen Boone Samuels Memorial Fund
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