Bronze strainer with loop handle

Unknown

5th century BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art

Strainers were part of the equipment for a symposium (drinking party), serving to strain the wine or additives mixed into it. This fine example has a delicately punched pinwheel pattern at the bottom of the bowl, vine leaves around the circumference of the lip on the exterior, and ducks' heads as finials for the handles.

Artist

Unknown

Date

5th century BCE

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Etruscan

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1914