Bronze cista (toiletries box)

Unknown

ca. 300–275 BCE · Bronze · Greek and Roman Art

This oval-shaped container has solid-cast feet, each of which terminates in a depiction of a comic theater mask, an unusual subject for cista feet. They may show the influence of Greek New Comedy playwrights such as Menander. A solid-cast figure of a nude woman doing a back-bend serves as the handle.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 300–275 BCE

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Praenestine

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Courtland Field Bishop, 1922