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LOT 0741
Roman Bronze Fitting Group
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 3 5/8 in. (137 grams total, 18-92 mm).
Comprising: a substantial key handle with baluster and 'X' ornament; knife pommel; clothing studs; fragmentary pins with decorative heads. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Axel Guttman collection.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
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Roman Rock Crystal Tortoise Amulet
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Opening Bid: £200
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with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s. -
Roman Roof Tile Fragment Group
Circa 1st-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Roman Pewter Cignus Spoon with Coiled Swan-Neck Handle
4th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
With large oval bowl and a long, slender handle, compressed into S-shape and terminating in a stylised bird’s head. 42.4 grams, 85 mm
Found near Welney, Cambridgeshire, in 1985.
Similar silver spoons (cygni), were found within a set of ten spoons (today at the British Museum with inventory nos. 1994,0408.81-90) with ownership inscriptions. The handle attachment of such spoons had some decorative profiling, and the name 'AVRVRSICINI' within the bowl was inlaid with niello. The spoons seems to have been produced by a Romano-British workshop of Late Antiquity (4th-5th centuries A.D.). The cygnus was a particular type of ligula. This type was characterised by a large, oval-shaped bowl, but was equipped, unlike the common ligula, with a shortened, recurved handle which terminated in a stylised water bird or swan's head (swan = cygnus in Latin).
