Roman Bronze Hanging Lidded Pyxis

The two side handles styled as dolphins with upturned tails, resting on the shoulder, their open mouths attached to the vessel rim, each with a loop, the linked chains attached, with a circular ring, another chain attached to the lid.

h. 10.1 x d. 13 cm

1st-2nd century AD

Bronze

Provenance

Acquired by Ex English private collection, acquired from the European art market in the early 1980s
Acquired by Royal-Athena Galleries at Bonhams's Antiquities- Sale 13686, London, April 27, 2006, lot 134
Acquired at Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, June 24, 2009, BLW105

Publications

Bonhams, Antiquities Sale, London, April 27, 2006, lot 134
J. Spier, "Roman Bronzes" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011, p. 139, fig. 29

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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