Bronze basin with six legs legs: ca. 700-650 B.C.; handled basin: 6th century B.C. Late Villanovan and Etruscan Such basins, decorated with abstract horsemen and birds, are especially common at Vetulonia, a probable site of manufacture. Most examples have only three legs and a basin without handles. Because the six legs on this piece are of two distinct types, it is likely that the object is really a pastiche composed of disparate ancient elements: two sets of solid-cast legs from about 700-650 B.C. and a handled basin from the sixth century B.C.. Bronze basin with six legs 254797 Late Villanovan and Etruscan, Bronze basin with six legs, legs: ca. 700650 B.C.; handled basin: 6th century B.C., Bronze, H. 9 in. (22.8 cm) diameter 12 1/4 in. (31.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1954 (54.11.1)