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Description: | bas-relief cast ornamental detail from the handle of a bronze vessel, or possibly from the fittings of a furniture item such as a table or clock. Some interest lies in the possibility that it might be of Roman production, but the considered opinion of the Suffolk recorders is that this is an object of seventeenth to nineteenth century manufacture. The fragment has a symmetrical curvilinear outline. In the lower part it encloses a human face, staring straight forward, with long hair and with a foliate or multiform cup emerging from the top of the cranium, as in certain representations of Serapis. The details of the face, however,are not characteristically Roman. Above this the two sides form in-turning ogival curves, with elongated foliate fronds facing inwards with many small leaflets on each. At their roots they spring from, or from near to, two rivet-heads which pass through the metal for attachment of the mount to its receiving base material. This was apparently a thin material, to judge by the shortness of the rivets and their punched back ends, perhaps the thin bronze of a vessel wall. The mount is broken below the chin of the face, and at the top, the extent or continuation being unknown: perhaps most likely, the lower extension continued to form a third place for the fixing of a rivet, and the upper extension formed a handle or similar attachment. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1550
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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