Bidspirit auction | LATE ROMAN/BYZANTINE SILVER AND NIELLO

LATE ROMAN/BYZANTINE SILVER AND NIELLO SPOON WITH GEOMETRIC MOTIF - Ca. AD 300 - 500. A silver spoon with an elongated ovoid bowl of shallow profile. A short right-angled neck, decorated with a nielloed herringbone pattern, links the bowl to a long tapering handle of circular section. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object number 13.42.1a; The British Museum, Museum number 1899,0425.9. Size: 180mm x 24mm; Weight: 21.5g Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the German art market, Munich before 2000.