Bronze box mirror
In relief, floral ornament
Geometric and floral elements played an important role in the decoration of all types of Greek art. Here lush acanthus leaves give rise to outward curling tendrils with fruit and to a flowerlike central element from which springs a palmette with inturned fronds.
Geometric and floral elements played an important role in the decoration of all types of Greek art. Here lush acanthus leaves give rise to outward curling tendrils with fruit and to a flowerlike central element from which springs a palmette with inturned fronds.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bronze box mirror
- Period: Late Classical
- Date: 2nd quarter of the 4th century BCE
- Culture: Greek
- Medium: Bronze
- Dimensions: diameter 6 1/8in. (15.5cm)
- Classification: Bronzes
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907
- Object Number: 07.257a, b
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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