CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN BRONZE, GLASS AND ENAMEL PYXIS
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.) high

Provenance

with Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York.
Melba Davis Whatley, Dallas, acquired from the above, by 1981.
Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 2005, lot 42.
Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 16 June 2006, lot 287.

Exhibited

Dallas Museum of Art, Ancient and Medieval Art from a Dallas Private Collection, 19 July-23 August 1981.

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Lot Essay

The present pyxis is related to a group of hexagonal vessels ornamented with millefiori glass and enamel ascribed to Gaul or the Rhineland. See the similar pyxis from the Rhineland, no. 53, p. 142 in D. von Bothmer, et al., Wealth of the Ancient World: The Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt Collections, and the Gallo-Roman unguentarium, no. 165, pp. 318-319 in M. True, et al., A Passion for Antiquities, Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman.

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