A Tall Jug and a Deep Plate
Roman, 2nd half of 2nd century A.D.
Bronze
Height: 28.4 cm (jug)
Height: 3.5 cm (plate)
Diameter: 22.4 cm (plate)
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Jug: Slender vessel which widens in the middle. The rim of the everted mouth is folded outwards. A separately fashioned, right-angled handle with several edges leads from the rim to the shoulder of the jug. The lower end is adorned by an applique in the shape of a male right foot and a pointed leaf. Turning rills at the neck, foot and base. Traces of adhesive on the outside of the rim. Intact. Said to have been found in Grand (Vosges).
Plate: Slightly concave wall and flat base ring. Broad rim with two turning rills which is folded outwards delicately. Set-off on the interior by a sharp bend. An inscription, probably naming the owner, on the exterior of the rim: FLAVI. Below it, old label: "SS6 FLAVI". Below it, the number "SS6" is written in a modern hand in pencil. An ancient repair within the ring base. Otherwise undamaged.
PROVENANCE
Formerly priv. coll. Louis-Gabriel Bellon (1819-1899), Paris. With Jack Philippe Ruellan, auction, Paris, 4.4.2009, lot 278. Old collection label on the underside of the plate with handwritten note "955 FLAVI".
NOTE
For the jug, cf. a nearly identical specimen in K. Deppert, Römisches Bronzegeschirr im Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte zu Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt a. M. 1977), 12 ff., with illus.; G. Faider-Feytmans, Les Bronzes Romains de Belgique (1979) 186f., no. 385 pl. 164f. For the dish, cf. S. Boucher-S. Tassinari, Bronzes Antiques du Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine à Lyon, Vol. 1, Cat. Lyon (1976) 133, no. 161 with illus.

