A Greek Bronze Patera Handle, circa 500 B.C.

in the form of a youth standing with his feet resting on a palmette flanked by volutes, the hands lifted and supporting the attachment for the patera, his slender body with taut musculature, the hair arranged in lobed waves around the forehead and falling in a long braided plait over the back, the patera attachment composed of a palmette attached to a crescentic support engraved with a double-volute flanked by split-palmettes.

Mathias Komor, New York
Christos G. Bastis Collection, New York, acquired from the above in 1974 (Sotheby's, New York, Antiquities from the Collection of the late Christos G. Bastis, December 9th, 1999, no. 73, illus.)
acquired at the above sale by the current owner

Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 92, illus.

Good and as shown. Surface slightly worn as a result of cleaning process and seemingly coated in waxy substance.
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For handles of similar type see M. Gjødesen, "Bronze Paterae with Anthropomorphous Handles", Acta Archaeologica, vol. 15, 1944, pp. 101-107, and P. Amandry, “Manches de patères et de miroirs grecs,” Monuments et mémoires de La Fondation Eugène Piot, vol. 47, 1953, pp. 47-70 and fig. 3; also compare Bernard V. Bothmer et al., The Pomerance Collection of Ancient Art, 1966, no. 93, D. G. Mitten et al., Master Bronzes from the Classical World, 1967, no. 76 (an example with patera remaining), and Wealth of the Ancient World. The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collection, 1983, no. 25 (Sotheby's, New York, June 19th, 1990, no.23).