LOT 737 Roman Silver Fork
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1st-3rd century AD. A silver fork with a tapering shank, balter-style lower body with crescentic neck developing to two parallel spines and piriform finial decorated with niello branch ornament. See The Metropolitan Meum, accession number 21.88.26, for aparable fork dated 1st century BC-3rd century AD. 13.9 grams, 19.6cm wide (7 3/4"). European art market in the 2000s. UK private collection. Property of a Surrey gentleman. It was possibly a fork ed for eating shellfish, or a medical utensil.
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