A Roman bronze libation bowl
Circa 1st Century B.C.
The shallow bowl with a short everted rim and carinated body flaring into a broad mouth at one end, set on a ring foot, the wishbone-shaped handle terminating in a maenad head and surmounted by an acanthus leaf thumbrest and the head of a snake, two serpentine supports below, 17.5cm wide注脚Provenance:
Private collection, acquired on Portobello Road, London, 1996/1997.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2004, lot 296.

There is a similar example in the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens.