Bronze cista (toiletries box) ca. 300-275 B.C. Praenestine 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.. Bronze cista (toiletries box) 251177 Praenestine, Bronze cista (toiletries box), ca. 300275 B.C., Bronze, H. 11 in. (27.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Courtland Field Bishop, 1922 (22.84.3a, b)
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