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LOT 0922
Roman and Later Bronze Ring Group
CIRCA 1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1/2 - 1 1/8 in. (25.4 grams total, 13-29 mm).
Comprising: a slender ring with a rectangular tiered bezel; a ring with a large bezel with blue glass intaglio with a silver flower; a ring with oval bezel with linear motifs; a ring with a keeled hoop and lentoid bezel; a glass ring with three raised bosses; a small interphalangial ring; a ring with a raised disc on the bezel. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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LOT 0922
Roman and Later Bronze Ring Group
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Roman Bronze Dress Pin with Ear Scoop
1st-4th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a slender tapering handle with a pointed end, the finial formed as a small spoon with a piercing below. 6.36 grams, 12.5 cm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Roman Silver Ring with Rectangular Bezel
1st-4th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large ring with round-section hoop and a raised plain bezel. 8.29 grams, 26.69 mm overall, 21.01 x 18.98 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)
From the old family collection of a West Country, UK, lady; acquired by descent from her grandfather circa 2001. -
Large Greco-Roman Silver Wine Infundibulum
5th century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £30,000 - 40,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £16,667
With a hollow spherical body decorated with slightly concave petals radiating from each end, separated by a central grooved band; one end with a tapering funnel marked by horizontal grooves, the other with a short tapering neck and a wide rim. 356 grams, 29.5 cm
Old Austrian private collection, 1980s. Accompanied by a copy of a nine-page examination report number 154/2026 by Dr habil Mikhail Treister. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12905-242699.
Comparable instruments, usually called clepsydra in Greek and Infundibulum in Latin, were in use in the 5th – first half of the 4th centuries B.C. A total of 13 such objects, or clepsydra, are known, including two of the unknown origin), represented by the finds both from Central (Lazio) and South (Campania, Calabria and Basilicata) Italy, Illyria (Apollonia) and Central Greece (Boeotia, Phocis) (all made of bronze), from the Taman peninsula in the North Pontic area, a fragmented one – from the Ulyap kurgan necropolis in the Trans-Kuban region and a silver piece from an aristocratic Thracian burial in the Plovdiv region. A distinctive feature of all these metal objects is the combination of a narrow vertical tube, at the lower end turning into a container with holes in the bottom.
