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LOT 0606
Large Roman Bronze Wine Strainer
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
12 1/4 in. (1.62 kg total, sieve: 31 cm wide).
Comprising a deep bowl with vertical sides, narrow everted flange rim, flat-section handle with incised lattice pattern; perforated with running-scroll pattern to the sidewall and intersecting arcs to the base forming rosettes; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the British Museum under accession no.1975,1002.9.
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