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From ancient Rome, ca. 1st century AD. Globular body on a flat pad base, with lathe-turned rings around foot, on the underside of the base and around the shoulders, the high-arching ribbed handle terminating below in a lion's paw on an oval handle-plate decorated with tendrils and berries, the edges beaded, the upper end with a well-modelled frontal-facing lion's head, a stylized ox skull in its mouth, the ends expanding to rotellae. 6-1/2"H (16.5 cm), losses as shown, but still a remarkable example!
ProvenanceEx-prominent Denver, CO Collection acquired in the 1960s.
Material Bronze
Dimensions 6-1/2"H
Condition Losses as shown
Antiquities
Ancient Roman
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