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LOT 0605
Roman Samian Ware Wine Cup
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
5 in. (111 grams, 12.5 cm wide).
Or a scyphus drinking cup, composed of a conical body, moulded foot, volute plates with gusseted handles below, bearded mature male mask plaques to the handle bases; floral, geometric and architectural decorative motifs to the body; possible maker's finger prints in the clay; some restoration.
ProvenanceEnglish collection, 1990s.
Ex property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 17.194.894, for a comparable vessel.
FootnotesProlific workshops making such terracotta operated at Arretium (modern Arezzo, Italy) during the Julio-Claudian period. They displayed lavish relief depictions of mythological scenes or floral and foliate ornamentation.
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