Roman bronze handle
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Ancient World:
Roman:
Bronze:
Pre AD 1000 item# 826293 (stock#U46)
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A cast bronze handle from a metal vessel. The upper part is decorated with a leaf-shaped thumb-spur and the lower part terminates in a ivy leaf shaped finial.
Roman, 1st to 3rd Century AD
Fragment as seen. A tiny chip missing from the protrusion at the base of the ivy leaf otherwise in very good condition.
Size: 13.7 x 9.5 cms
Formerly in the collection of a museum employee, Oxford, UK.
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Roman bronze medical speculum
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Ancient World:
Roman:
Bronze:
Pre AD 1000 item# 747083 (stock#R45)
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A bronze speculum implement with turned decoration around the gripping area of the shaft.
The name speculum is applied to a variety of undetermined bronze implements from the Roman world which would have been used for medical or personal hygiene functions; this shape of implement with a small scoop at one end is also sometimes referred to as an ear-cleaner.
Roman, c. 1st or 2nd Century AD
Intact
Size: 10 x 0.5 cms
Ex. private collection, Cheshire, UK.
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Roman bronze horse's head
Antiques:
Regional Art:
Ancient World:
Roman:
Bronze:
Pre AD 1000 item# 717560 (stock#R35)
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A handle from a fine bronze oil lamp decorated with a horse's head sprouting from a flower.
The oil lamp would have been suspended from a candelabrium or ceiling via a chain which was attached to the loop below the horse head.
Roman, 2nd or 3rd Century AD
Intact as shown
Size: 5 x 2 cms
Ex. UK private collection, acquired in the 1980's from Faustus Fine Art.
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