Abundance & The Good Life:

The Late-Antique Inheritance (cat. 1-11)

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Plaque with Medallion


Tinned bronze
Late-Antique, 4th century AD
Height: 2 1/4 inches (5.7 cm.)

This small bronze plaque is nearly identical to a group of six similar pieces in The Metropolitan Museum of Art thought to derive from a box or piece of furniture. While these pieces display the loose, sketchy style in vogue during late Constantinian times, they are best seen as imitations of more costly and elaborate objects like our chariot fitting (cat. 1).

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