Bronze perfume dipper
Unknown
4th–3rd century BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art
Rogers Fund, 1923 (23.160.88) Bronze or ivory dippers were often used by the Etruscans to apply scented oils and perfumes to the hair and body. The two bronze examples shown here are decorated with small figures of nude females, one of whom holds a libation bowl.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 4th–3rd century BCE
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- Etruscan
- Department
- Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1897
