Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Various Properties
Lot 79

An Arretine Ware bowl and a Roman Red-Slip Ware jug
2

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Antiquities specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

An Arretine Ware bowl and a Roman Red-Slip Ware jug
Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.
The footed bowl exterior decorated in moulded relief with four seated winged Sirens, playing flutes and lyres, interspersed by columns, with a small maker's mark panel: 'TIGRAN', circa 10 B.C.-10 A.D.; the body of the jug decorated with a gladiator, three vertical palm branches, a lozenge motif and two foliate arches, probably representing victor's wreaths, moulded foliate detail on the handle, bowl 11.5cm high, 15cm diam.; jug 20cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, UK.

There is an Arretine bowl fragment by M. Perennius Tigranus in the British Museum that similarly depicts a Siren playing the double flute with a himation twisted round her lower limbs, acc. no. 1893,0524.5; see also a fragmentary bowl mould with a Tigran stamp in the British Museum, acc. no. 1900,0726.7. For another example of a footed bowl by M. Perennius Tigranus depicting dancers and musicians with pan pipes see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 10.210.37.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone with dedication inscription of King Lipit-Ishtar of Isin

A small Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone inscribed for King Sin-Kashid of Uruk

A Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Hittite bronze helmet with pelta-shaped cheek-pieces

An Attic pottery tankard with geometric decoration

A Greek pottery alabastron in the form of a greaved leg

A Greek terracotta female figure with a bird perched on her shoulder