Title: A Pair of Ancient Roman Bronze Sculpture Handle Hardware
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Antiquity
History: N/A
Origin: Southern Europe > Italy
Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 5th-2nd century
Item ID: 5320
A LARGE ROMAN BRONZE KRATER HANDLE, ca. 5th-2nd century. BC. The heavy solid cast handle with ornamental work and knob hardware design. Some cleanable deposits with more detail beneath. Man made bronze in many regions, though the place and time of the introduction and development of bronze technology is not universally synchronous. Man-made tin bronze technology requires set production techniques. Tin must be mined (mainly as the tin ore cassiterite) and smelted separately, then added to molten copper to make the bronze alloy. The Bronze Age was a time of heavy use of metals and of developing trade networks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_art
Roman art has the visual arts made in Ancient Rome, and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Major forms of Roman art are architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Metal-work, coin-die and gem engraving, ivory carvings, figurine and glass. While the traditional view of Roman artists is that they often borrowed from, and copied Greek precedents (much of the Greek sculpture known today is in the form of Roman marble copies), more recent analysis has indicated that Roman art is a highly creative pastiche relying heavily on Greek models but also encompassing Etruscan, native Italic, and even Egyptian visual culture. Stylistic eclecticism and practical application are the hallmarks of much Roman art.
