Gold and copper alloy bracelet with lion-head finials - image 1

Classical

Gold and copper alloy bracelet with lion-head finials

With heads of lions on the ends. Diam.: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)

Date

499 - 400 BC

Accession No.

74.51.3559

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus 1873-75, found at Kourion, Cyprus; until 1874, collection of Luigi Palma di Cesnola; acquired in 1874, purchased from L.P. di Cesnola.

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. I, 3, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 63, 65, fig. 78, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 63, 65, fig. 78, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Bayer, Andrea and Laura D. Corey. 2020. Making the Met, 1870-2020 pp. 51, 246, fig. 39, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.