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          Classical Antiquities - 600 B.C. - 500 A.D.

   
Rare Early Roman Bronze Patera, Aylesford Type

            
 
 

   This fine pan belongs to the first generation of bronze vessels produced by the Romans (100-20 B.C.). This particular shape is called Aylesford referring
   to a similar pan found in this British iron-age settlement, and now in the British Museum.

   This sort of luxury vessel circulated throughout Europe in the Final Iron Age, and are found in aristocratic tombs, for instance in Luxembourg or Britain.

   This large patera has a long rimmed handle with a stylized bird head finial and a hammered, squared rim. Overall blue-green patina,
   a small area of holes in the forward base of the pan, otherwise intact. Custom base.

   Material : Bronze
   Provenance : Patera : Ex. Christie's, South Kensington. Ex.NY Auction Sale
   Period : c. 1st century B.C.
   Dimensions : L : 36,8 cm - 14-1/2"

        Ref. : r-072

    Römische Bronzene Patera

 

   Price & Condition : EUR 1100 -

      

 

 
   Auction sale equivalent : Sotheby's NY Nov.1990 sale, lot #88 - estimated US$ 2500 - $3500 without holes..

   Bibliography : Studies of Roman bronze vessels with masters stamps, by Richard Petrovszky, Verlag Marie Leidorf, gmbh.

   Museum Equivalent : British Museum Aylesford Pan, Found at Aylesford Cemetery, outside Maidstone, Kent, England (1886) - Room 50.
   Museum Equivalent : Pan of the Aristocratic B Tomb from Goeblingen-Nospelt, Musée Archéologique de Luxembourg.

 

 

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