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The two side handles styled as dolphins with upturned tails, resting on the shoulder, their open mouths attached to the vessel rim, each with a loop, the linked chains attached, with a circular ring, another chain attached to the lid.

h. 10.1 x d. 13 cm

1st-2nd century AD

Bronze

Provenance

Acquired by Ex English private collection, acquired from the European art market in the early 1980s
Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries at Bonhams's Antiquities- Sale 13686, London, 27th April 2006, lot 134
Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 24th June 2009, BLW105

Publications

Bonhams, Antiquities Sale, London, 27th April 2006, lot 134
J. Spier, "Roman Bronzes" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011, p. 139, fig. 29

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Roman Bronze Hanging Lidded Pyxis

Provenance

Publications

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