Tall spherical jar with cylindrical neck and folded collar rim. Two bands of wheel-cut grooves encircling the body. The flat base slightly incurved.
Free-blown amber colored glass
H. 19.1 cm (7.5 in)
D. 15.7 cm (6.2 in)
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Head with the attributes of an infant such as a rounded forehead, a fleshy nose and chubby cheeks. Linear cut on the eyebrows, the chin with two drilled holes just below the lower lip.
Grave expression conferred by marked heavy eyelids and pressed lips. One ear completely modeled; the other only cursory because of its closeness to a now lost panel behind.
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Roman beaker on a small base with flaring wall to a rounded rim. As usual with ancient glass, this item is thin-walled and light as a feather.
Glass
Syro-Roman, 1st-2nd century AD
H. 10.8 cm (4.25 in), D. 5.9 cm (2.3 in)
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Roman bronze chest handle with a panther head protruding from a central knob. The almost heraldic head is rendered with knob ears, a nicely chiselled mane and arched eyebrows which merge into the nose. The recessed face with chiselled eyes and a slit mouth below.
The preserved outstretched leg to solder the handle on a bronze vessel.
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Diminutive Roman sculpture of Hermes holding a purse and the Caduceus. Exquisite head with carefully carved features, drilled pupils and closely cropped hair topped by the wings of the helmet.
Hermes is inside a natural-size nut. A small hole on the side to close the nutshell with a similar half to form a small diptych.
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Fine glass bottle with a globular body, elongated neck and folded rim.
Glass
Roman, 1st to 3rd century AD
H. 12.2 cm (4.8 in)
D. 10.6 cm (4.2 in)
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The Eros child emerging from a flower, showing very expressive features such as an exaggeratedly long fore and upper head.
Bronze
Roman, 2nd/3rd century AD
H. 3.8 cm (1.5 in)
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Roman imperial bronze mirror with a riveted rim and fine concentric lines. The other side would have been burnished for reflection.
A lotus blossom at the join of the slung handle to the disk. The handle with a knob on the bottom.
Bronze.
Roman, 2nd/3rd century AD.
H. 23.8 cm (9.4 in).
D. 12 cm (4.7 in).
Nice spotted patina with neat traces of the cloth the mirror was wrapped in for burial. Disk and handle reattached, small portion of the riveted rim missing. Fine condition.
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The large almond-shaped eyes contoured with carved lines. The edged head shows a linear rendition of the snout and the mouth. The vestigial ears appear behind the missing horns.
The triangular patch of hair on the forehead with a square hole that connects with a channelling carved along the animal’s neck. The head protome served as spout on a now lost basin.
Bulls were associated with renewal throughout much of South Arabia, and the motif appears frequently on stelae found in cemeteries.
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Rare Roman hairpin with a flat terminal carved in the shape of a gryllos, a fantastical creature that is part human, part animal. The present example reminds of a bearded man with ram-like horns, converging with an elephant (?)
Grylloi were a popular subject on Roman intaglios.
Bone.
Roman, 2nd to 4th century AD.
H. 10.8 cm (4.3 in).
Intact, fine condition.
German art market
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