Catalogue of the silver plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum (1921)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Smith, Reginald A. (Reginald Allender), 1873- · London : Printed by Order of the Trustees · leaf 48
crocodileto 1. in the background, and inthe field five lotos-plants ; beyond,an ibis pecking the ground to1., and three lotos-flowers, alsoanother object. All the flowersseem to be the lotos, in differentstages of growth, or seen fromdifferent points of view. Plate VIII. Diam. 12-5 cm. Asia Minor,… … Fig. 25 = No. 77 fe.it.). 78. Flask. Long cylindrical neck, the mouth broken^away ; slender stem and smallfoot ; body top-shaped. Round the neck, two gilt bands of ornament, vandyke-pattem between rings of punctured dots, and wave-pattern between similar rings ;round the stem long acanthus-leaves…
Silverwork, Ancient · Art objects
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