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A Group of Five Birds, Late Roman-Byzantine, 4th-7th cent. A.D.

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A Group of Five Birds, Late Roman-Byzantine, 4th-7th cent. A.D.

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Condition:Very GoodSize:L. max. 2 cm.Status*:ActiveLot DescriptionA GROUP OF FIVE BIRDS FROM FIBULAE Silver, Bronze. Late Roman-Byzantine, 4th-7th cent. A.D. Spherical heads. Ornamental bands, profiled edges, punched lines and circles as decoration. Undersides with groove and traces of adhesive. Tip of one beak slightly worn, otherwise intact.ProvenanceFormerly Gallery J.D.Cahn , Basel, Switzerland, thence German art market, 2006.LiteratureThe grooved undersides and adhesive indicate that the birds were originally attached to fibulae. Cf. A.P.Kozloff-D.G. Mitten-M. Sguaitamatti, More Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection (Mainz 1986) 50f., nos. 122ff. with illus. For the distinctive decoration with profiled edges and circular punches, cf. F. Naumann, Antiker Schmuck, Cat. Kassel 1980 (Kassel 1980) 70, no. 187, pl. 33. For a considerably earlier date, cf. The gifts of the gods, Cat. Fortuna Fine Arts New York (n.d.) 22, no. 23 with illus.

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Name: A Group of Five Birds, Late Roman-Byzantine, 4th-7th cent. A.D.
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