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LOT 0163
Roman Bronze Vessel with Folding Handles
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
11 in. (1.68 kg, 28 cm).
Ellipsoid in plan with low basal ring and thick convex rim, carination to the forward end; hinges to each lateral rim, the knuckles formed as addorsed duck-heads each with scrolled panel to the rear retaining the pivot of the ribbed D-shaped handles.
ProvenanceAcquired in Switzerland, 1996.
Private collection, Europe.
Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate dated 30th April 2004.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12363-226688.
See Tassinari, S., La Vaisselle de bronze, Romaine et provincial, au muse des Antiquités Nationales, Paris, 1975, no.104, for examples of Roman trays.
FootnotesThis vessel (lanx) was part of Roman and provincial bronze instrumentum domesticum, i.e. culinary or domestic utility ware. The form of the bowl resembles a type of helmet with carination to the front, the handles placed as hinged cheek-protectors.
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LOT 0163
Roman Bronze Vessel with Folding Handles
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000€17,400 - 23,200 (for guidance only)$20,250 - 27,000 (for guidance only)
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Roman Glass Vessel
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With piriform body and flat base, tall neck and everted rim. 48.5 grams, 11.6 cm
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Late Roman Redware Lamp Face with Military Officer
Late 5th-early 6th century A.DSold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising the upper part of an oil lamp with part of the handle in situ; band of concentric circles and floral motifs to the shoulder; discus with low-relief figure seated with flexed knees, wearing a thigh-length tunic and cingulum military belt over bracae, and a short sagum clasped at the right shoulder; with short hair and beard; right arm folded across the body holding the hem of the sagum; modern suspension ring to reverse. 101 grams, 11.4 cm
Acquired 1960s-1990s. From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
The lamp belongs to the type Atlante X or Hayes II A. The so-called Christian lamps in Terra Sigillata Africana have been classified by Hayes into two major types, I and II. He has distinguished two classes in his type II, according to geographic place of manufacture or origin. Subtype II A group lamps from central Tunisia are characterised by the use of fine clay, glossy light orange slip, and carefully executed decoration using a great number of neatly drawn shoulder motifs. The image of this military officer is unusual, and it can represent an imperial primikerios of the African army after the reconquest of Belisarius in 533 A.D. -
Roman Bronze Brooch Collection
1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Including fly, knee, bow-and-fantail and other types. 27.3 grams total, 17-33 mm
Acquired on the European art market since the early 2000s. From the private Northern Ireland collection of R.M.
