- chapter 58: Mirrors in art and society –
Figure 58.12 Tang mirror with male and female Lasae forming border, provenance unknown, circa
330–320 bc. (Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, inv. V.505). From E. Mavleev in F. Roncalli (ed.),
Gens antiquissima Italiae. Antichità dall’Umbria a Leningrado (Milan, 1990), no. 8.19, p. 416.Figure 58.13 Lasa mirror, provenance unknown, circa 300–250 bc. (Princeton University Art
Museum, inv. y1954–412). From De Puma 2005, no. 44. Drawing by the author.mirror with Lasa in Boston (Fig. 58.14)^46 shows the same pose but this time the fi gure
wears a Phrygian cap. The last mirror, said to be from Orvieto, is now in Philadelphia
(Fig. 58.15).^47 Here the fi gure, again nude, winged and wearing the Phrygian cap, has
become highly abstracted and, although competently executed, seems perfunctory and
decidedly unattractive. All three examples are mirrors without decorative borders and
depict the Lasa in an identical pose. These features are typical of the type in general.