A ROMAN GILT-BRONZE MIRROR COVER, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
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July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description
🎃A ROMAN GILT-BRONZE MIRROR COVER, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
repoussé in low rel🌳ief with the group of the Three Graces standing in their usual arrangement, the two outer figures holding stalks of wheat, and flanked by a seated figure of Eros to the left and a thymiaterion to the right.
Diameter 12.6 cm.
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909-1988), ac🦋quired circa 1940-1950
ꦦFoy C. Casper, Jr. (1941-2002), former conservator at the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Most Roman bronze mirrors featuring the Three Graces show them flanked by an oinochoe on the left and a crater on the right, each standing on a square pedestal; see E. Milleker, Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 23, 1988, pp. 69ff. (with a list of examples known at the time oꦅn p. 81).