What is ROMAN SILVER? - Reading Silver Hallmarks - Silver …
2011年8月8日 · I have a spoon marked ‘ROMAN SILVER’ followed by a sideways ‘W’ in what looks like an arrow point and 'BRAVINGTON KINGS CROSS LONDON. What is ROMAN SILVER in this case please? Roman silver was a trade name for a particular alloy, used as a base metal for electro plating.
Silver spoon and fork | Roman - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This elegant and unusual eating implement doubles as both a spoon and a fork, the latter intended more for picking up food from a serving dish than for eating with from one's own plate. The handle is decorated with a spotted panther, an …
Ancient Roman 'ligula' or 'toilet spoon' unearthed in South Wales
2024年1月31日 · A metal detectorist named Valentinas Avdejevas stumbled upon a rare Roman artifact in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, in June 2020. The find, now officially declared a treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act, includes a Roman silver “ligula” or “toilet spoon.”
Silver spoon | Roman | Imperial | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Silver spoon. Period: Imperial. Date: 3rd century CE. Culture: Roman. Medium: Silver. Dimensions: Other: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm) Classification: Gold and Silver. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919. Accession Number: 19.192.64
Silver Spoon | Late Roman | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Silver Spoon. Date: 4th–5th century. Culture: Late Roman. Medium: Silvered Copper alloy. Dimensions: Overall: 7 7/16 x 1 1/8 x 5/8 in. (18.9 x 2.9 x 1.6 cm) Classification: Metalwork-Copper alloy. Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917. Object Number: 17.191.211
spoon - British Museum
A Roman silver spoon with bent handle and broken and damaged bowl. The short, plain, tapered rod handle was seemingly broken and re-pointed in antiquity. There is a simple offset at the junction with the oval bowl, the distal end of which is broken short of …
A Roman silver spoon , 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D. | Christie's
Christie's, London, 20 May 1981, lot 31 for a similar Romano-Celtic silver spoon with handle in the form of a seated deity, found at Helpston, near Peterborough and now in the British Museum. More from Antiquities
spoon | British Museum
Duck-handled silver spoon (ligula or cignus) with niello inscription DEIFAVBLOTVGI in the bowl. Oval, very slightly keeled bowl with a coiled handle and an outward-facing duck-head. The latter has a slender upcurved beak.
spoon | British Museum
Silver spoons from the Mildenhall treasure Roman Britain, 4th century AD Found in Mildenhall, Suffolk The eight spoons in the Mildenhall treasure represent examples from at least three, perhaps four, sets.
This Roman gadget was clearly designed to impress
2013年2月6日 · Curator Chris Lightfoot on an early Roman eating implement. Explore this object: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/257863 Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the …