18³⁄₁₆ in. (46.2 cm.) high

Dr. Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), Geneva and New York.
Bedeutende Kunstwerke aus dem Nachlass Dr. Jacob Hirsch, Adolph Hess AG, Lucerne, 7 December 1957, lot 54.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 9-10 July 1984, lot 264.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above (Art of the Ancient World, vol. IV, 1985, no. 179).
U.S. private collection, Detroit, acquired from the above, 2001.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above, 2001 (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIII, 2002, no. 33; Gods and Mortals II: Bronzes of the Ancient World from Italy to Egypt, 2004, no. 24).
Portuguese private collection, acquired from the above, 2004.
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, acquired from the above, 2009.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2009.

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1988 - 1995.
Muncie, Indiana, Ball State Museum of Art, Ball State University, 1996 - 2001.
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA457).

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Incense burners were popular items among the Etruscans. This example is typical of a type normally associated with Vulci, the site of extensive bronze-working activity throughout much of Etruscan history. A robust nude youth, a descendant of the Greek kouros type, stands on a triangular platform supported by a tripod terminating with hippocampi. The shaft rising from his head terminates in a small bowl for the incense. Cf. acc. no. 97.22.22 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.