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| Keywords: Etruscan - Bowl with Pulviscolo Granulation - Walters 57372.jpg The 7th and early 6th centuries BC are known as the Orientalizing period because of the many eastern or Oriental elements in the art In this prosperous era of international trade Etruscan artists manufactured luxury goods such as those seen in this case that reflect influences from the art of the eastern Mediterranean This bowl features friezes of geometric patterns and one of flying birds and an animal perhaps a lion The bowl's two horizontal loop handles and the hollow crouching sphinxes on them are characteristically Etruscan century 7 BC Orientalizing gold cm 10 4 14 2 6 2 accession number 57 372 18306 Henri Daguerre date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1926 place of origin Italy Walters Art Museum license Etruscan metalware Etruscan art in the Walters Art Museum Animals in Etruscan art Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
