Set of three Etruscan brazier feet

Etruria, Chiusi workshop
ca 500-475 BC Bronze Height: ca 20 cm
Gorgon rising from foliage. Her arms are wide spread and her hair trails their full length. Her mouth is open and her tongue protrudes.
One ex Leo Mildenberg collection, acquired in the 1960s; two ex private collection, Ticino, Switzerland, acquired in the 1960s.
Near identical pieces are in London (British Museum, no. 47.8-6.145), Berlin (Berlin 1968, 93, Fr.1516), Marseilles (Musée Borély, nos 812, 813), Paris (Louvre, de Ridder 1913, nos 2602, 2603) and Chiusi (MonAnt 30, 1925, 466, fig. 68). The bronzes have been ascribed by Neugebauer to a Chiusine workshop which, during the first half of the fifth century, produced braziers, each with three feet in the form of Gorgons or winged creatures. (Compare the brazier from La Boncia in the Museo Archeologico, Florence: Milani 1912, pl. 88, I).