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LOT 0666
Roman Bronze Bowl with Concentric Circles
1ST CENTURY A.D.
3 1/4 in. (142 grams, 83 mm).
With flat base and central boss, flared rim, incised rings to the inner face.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Cf. Tassinari, S., La Vaisselle de Bronze, Romaine et Provinciale, au Musée des Antiquités Nationales, XXIXe supplément de Gallia, Paris, 1975, items 88,90, for similar types.
Footnotes
The function of Roman vessels is not always precise, as well as the separation between culinary forms and forms for domestic use, those of the kitchen and those of the table. Many bronzes belonged to table service (like perhaps this splendidly preserved example), others to objects of usual worship (patera) or washing, while basins, plates and crockery found their place above all in the kitchen.
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