An ancient Roman lady's silver hand mirror with a bronze handle. It is of the standard form with lathed concentric circles on the reverse, a border of drilled holes, and a highly polished face.
2nd century AD.
Likely from a Northern European Workshop.
Height: 8 in. (20.2 cm).
Intact, no repairs, excellent state of preservation.
Ownership of mirror of this quality in antiquity would have been reserved for a wealthy woman.
Confer: a virtually identical example from Germany in "Arbeit: Handwerk und Berufe in der romischen Stadt: Colonian Ulpia Traiana," Archaologischer Park Xanten, (1994) p. 54. Another of identical type in, "P. Stuart, "Provincie van een imperium," Leiden, 1986, p. 151, no. 223. Also, L. Popovic, "Antique Silver from Serbia," (1994) no. 233. A similar mirror from Pompeii, Naples Museum 25716, Strong #157.
Formerly in a German private collection.
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Inv.#: 1290
$3,000
Roman Silver Hand Mirror
HIXENBAVGH
ANCIENT ART
