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kentaurisРождение Афродиты
Ручка от блюда, найденная в Галлии в 1830-40-х годах.
Датируется концом 2 - началом 3 века н.э.
Самого блюда нет как нет - возможно, ушло в переплавку ещё в древности, ибо вещь была серебряная с золотым декором...
Dish handle
Late second to early third century AD
Из Лувра
Фрагмент аннотации:
This dish handle was found between 1830 and 1840 in Bondonneau, near Montélimar, in south-eastern France. It demonstrates the popularity of silverware in Gaul during the second and third centuries AD. The relief decoration, which is chased and heightened with gold, takes up a favorite theme of Roman decorative art: the Triumph of the Marine Venus.
Purchased by the Louvre in 1850, this handle with relief decoration was found around a decade earlier, in the ruins of an ancient spa in the locality of Bondonneau, near Montélimar, in the Drôme region. The wide groove running along the bottom edge of the object indicates that it was originally fixed to the rim of a large, circular, silver dish that has since been lost. The outer edge is elegantly shaped into a series of arcs. The reliefs are made of cast and chased silver, partially covered with gold leaf. The gilding, now lost with the exception of sparse highlights, was once abundant and would have been applied to details such as the bodies of the figures and the large shell framing Venus herself.
Ручка от блюда, найденная в Галлии в 1830-40-х годах.
Датируется концом 2 - началом 3 века н.э.
Самого блюда нет как нет - возможно, ушло в переплавку ещё в древности, ибо вещь была серебряная с золотым декором...
Dish handle
Late second to early third century AD
Из Лувра
Фрагмент аннотации:
This dish handle was found between 1830 and 1840 in Bondonneau, near Montélimar, in south-eastern France. It demonstrates the popularity of silverware in Gaul during the second and third centuries AD. The relief decoration, which is chased and heightened with gold, takes up a favorite theme of Roman decorative art: the Triumph of the Marine Venus.
Purchased by the Louvre in 1850, this handle with relief decoration was found around a decade earlier, in the ruins of an ancient spa in the locality of Bondonneau, near Montélimar, in the Drôme region. The wide groove running along the bottom edge of the object indicates that it was originally fixed to the rim of a large, circular, silver dish that has since been lost. The outer edge is elegantly shaped into a series of arcs. The reliefs are made of cast and chased silver, partially covered with gold leaf. The gilding, now lost with the exception of sparse highlights, was once abundant and would have been applied to details such as the bodies of the figures and the large shell framing Venus herself.