CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN SILVER SHELL-SHAPED DISH
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm.) wide

Provenance

with Emmanuel Manolis Segredakis, Paris.
with The Brummer Gallery, New York and Paris, acquired from the above 1928 (Inv. no. P5210).
The Ernest Brummer Collection: Ancient Art, vol. II, Spink & Son and Galerie Koller, Zurich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 658.
Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired in 1979.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 24 October 2013, lot 89.
Property from a Princely Collection; Antiquities, Christie's, London, 16 December 2020, lot 53.

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Lot Essay

This dish takes the shape of a stylized scallop shell with the lobes of the shell converging in a small bird's head terminal. Shell-shaped dishes, called forme di pasticceria (or patisserie molds), were produced in both bronze and silver. For a similar example in bronze from Pompeii but with the head of a priest of Isis, see no. 86 in B. Conticello, ed., Rediscovering Pompeii.

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