Hand holding a shallow drinking bowl (patera),
Ancient Roman, circa 1st - 2nd Century A.D.
White marble
18 cm high
11.5 cm wide
7.5 cm deep
Provenance:
Collection of Warren Stratford Trevors, West Country, England (acquired 1950s-1960s);
Sotheby’s New York, Antiquities, 5th June 2013, lot 77
Ariadne Galleries, New York and London;
Private Collection, U.S.A
A fantastic ancient roman marble fragment depicting a hand holding a shallow drinking bowl, known as a patera, or phiale. Numerous statues survive from the ancient world with figures holding such vessels.
