Collection of four palmettes and two buttons - Terracotta

Collection of four palmettes and two buttons.
Terracotta.
Begining of 5th century B.C. Magna Graecia.
On display.

The “palmetto ”is an oriental motif that appears in Greek art since the 7th century B.C. The Greek colonies that settled in the south of Italy and in Sicilia in the first half of the 8th c. B.C., loved to use it on different types of objects.