An Etruscan Terracotta Sarcophagus Lid, circa late 3rd Century B.C.

molded in two parts with the owner reclining on a couch with pillows at her head and feet, and wearing a long mantle and ring, her centrally parted hair surmounted by a veil; remains of white, pink, and black pigment.

the Italian tenor Evan Gorga (1865-1957)
Museo Nazionale Preistorico Luigi Pigorini, Rome
Alfred Stendahl, Stendahl Galleries, Hollywood, California, acquired from the above in exchange for Pre-Columbian antiquities, by negotiation with the Museum and the Fine Arts Department of the Italian Ministry of Public Education

"Etruscan Art", Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, March 21st to April 14th, 1963
"Etruscan Art from West Coast Collections," The Art Gallery of the University of Santa Barbara, California, February 7th to March 15th, 1967

Alfred E. Stendahl, Etruscan Art, Los Angeles, California, p. 21, illus.
Mario A. Del Chiaro, Etruscan Art from West Coast Collections, Santa Barbara, California, 1967, p. 34, no. 18, illus.

Good, especially for an object of this size. Made in two sections and there are a few chips where the sections meet. Several firing cracks, some of which have been filled. The bottom section seems to be repaired from two pieces. Face weathered, nose chipped.
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