Mold for a Bowl with Triton, Nereids, and Dolphins

late 1st century BCE-early 1st century CE (Early Roman Imperial)

22.2 cm 10.5 cm

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Impressed with nine different motifs, using both stamps and roller-dies, this mold would have been used to create a bowl decorated with figures of dolphins and mythological sea creatures in relief. In the foot of the mold is an ornamental ring of dolphins crowned by radiating...

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31309
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Jacob Hirsch, Paris and New York; estate sale of Jacob Hirsch, Lucerne, December 7 1957, no. 34; purchased by Walters Art Museum, 1957.
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7
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