Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) · New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art · leaf 123
ARCHAIC PERIOD 85 dynasties (about 1500-600 B.C.) are placed with them to show the kind of prototypes from which the later vases were derived. It will be observed that the Egyptian ex- amples are of a greater brightness and purity of coloring than the later products. In conclusion, a few pieces of… … FIG. 51. ETRUSCAN GOLD DISKS Room, Floor II, Gallery 32). Specially noteworthy are a Gallery pair of gold disks, used as buttons or earrings, richly dec- ^ ^ orated with a beautiful design of a rosette surrounded by lions' heads and two bands of smaller rosettes (fig. 51). Disks of this type occur…
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