An ancient Roman bronze shell-shaped dish in the form of a scallop, with flat base and flaring fluted sides.
Ca. 1st century BC - 2nd century AD.
Diameter: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm).
cf.: K. Vierneisel, ed.Römisches im Antikenmuseum Berlin, 1979, no. 106; D. Heilmeyer, Antikenmuseum Berlin: die Ausgestellten Werke, (Berlin, 1988), p. 276, no. 17.
Formerly in the Jerome Eisenberg collection, New York; acquired at Sotheby's, London, May 21, 1992, lot 181.
