Lot Essay
Cf. M. Comstock and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1971, pp. 326 and 328, nos. 458 and 461 for comparable handles.
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
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A pair of Graeco-Roman bronze and silver inlaid handles
Circa 1st Century A.D.
From a jug, each terminating in a mask of Pan with silver inlaid eyes, teeth and ribbed horns, flanked on either side by volute scrolls, the stem of the handle decorated in relief with the curling body of a snake with traces of silver, rising to a curving leafy terminal, flanked by rim attachments in the form of swans' heads with silver eyes each emerging from an acanthus leaf collar, silver tear-shaped ornaments on the rim
5½ in. (14 cm.) long average (2)
Circa 1st Century A.D.
From a jug, each terminating in a mask of Pan with silver inlaid eyes, teeth and ribbed horns, flanked on either side by volute scrolls, the stem of the handle decorated in relief with the curling body of a snake with traces of silver, rising to a curving leafy terminal, flanked by rim attachments in the form of swans' heads with silver eyes each emerging from an acanthus leaf collar, silver tear-shaped ornaments on the rim
5½ in. (14 cm.) long average (2)