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LOT 0842
Roman Silver Applique Mask
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.77 grams, 22 mm).
Appliqué with repoussé detailing, mask of Alexander the Great or Dionysus with diadem to his brow.
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Cf. Rolland, H., Bronzes Antiques de Haute Provence, Paris, 1965, item 331, for similar applique in bronze (Dionysus), of same size.
Footnotes
Similar applications in bronze or silver (sometimes even in gold) decorated the triclinia of rich aristocrats, or the precious furnishings in fine wood of the furniture of the Villas.
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