LOT 0189 ROMAN SILVER VESSEL WITH DECORATION
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Ca. 100-300 AD. Roman. A beautifully preserved, hammered silver vessel with a plain rim and an interior surface decorated with an incised ring of small circles. Good condition. The acquisition and appreciation of silver vessels was almost a cult in Rome. Weights were recorded and compared and ostentatiously exaggerated. Large quantities of bullion came to Rome with the spoils of Greece and Asia in the 2nd century BC, and the scholar Pliny the Elder (1st century AD) says that even in Republican times there were more than 150 silver dishes of a hundredweight apiece in the city. Many rich hoards in modern collections were buried by design during the calamitous last centuries of the Roman Empire. The most sumptuous hoard, i.e. the Boscoreale treasure (in the Louvre), was accidentally saved by the same volcanic catastrophe that destroyed Herculaneum and killed Pliny in 79 AD. Cf. Edgar John Forsdyke's contribution to the 'Roman metalwork' section for Britannica; https://www.britannica.com/topic/metalwork/Greek-and-Etruscan; Edgar John Forsdyke was Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum, London, 1936-50; Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1932-36. Size: L:30mm / W:145mm ; 150g. Provenance: Private collection of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1980s.
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