SUPERB ANCIENT ROMAN SILVER SKYPHOS

Ca. AD 1 - 50. A silver skyphos with a deep hemispherical bowl, slightly everted rim and low moulded foot. Two high loop handles are attached at the sides, each composed of bifurcated rods joined at the centre by a moulded collar and continuing as a straight stem to a circular attachment on the lower body; the upper terminals are secured at the rim and surmounted by globular finials. The plain interior is bordered beneath the lip by a pair of fine concentric grooves. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 20.49.2. Size: 170mm x 80mm; Weight: 280g Provenance: From a private London collection; earlier present on the Netherlands art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.