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CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
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THREE BYZANTINE SILVER COSMETIC INSTRUMENTS
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a nail cleaner with a flattened forked terminal, an ear scoop with a circular shallow bowl on long thin shaft, and a tooth pick curved at a right angle, each with an intricate openwork shaft below, divided into rectangular sections, with straight and twisted patterning, terminating in a perforation for suspension
Tallest: 3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high (3)
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a nail cleaner with a flattened forked terminal, an ear scoop with a circular shallow bowl on long thin shaft, and a tooth pick curved at a right angle, each with an intricate openwork shaft below, divided into rectangular sections, with straight and twisted patterning, terminating in a perforation for suspension
Tallest: 3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Brian Grover, Dorset, England, 1950s.
with Parthenon Gallery, London.
with Charles Ede, London, 2005 (Cypriot and Roman Antiquities, no. 49).
with Parthenon Gallery, London.
with Charles Ede, London, 2005 (Cypriot and Roman Antiquities, no. 49).
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