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SILVER SPOON-PROBE
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SILVER SPOON-PROBE
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
SILVER SPOON-PROBE
Hellenistic art, 4th–1st century BC
An instrument with a fluted handle, the upper end featuring a finely detailed horse’s head and the lower end fitted with a small spoon-shaped bowl.
This type of instrument was used for scooping up and handling small quantities of substances (ointments, cosmetics, perfumes or pharmaceutical preparations).
Length: 24.5 cm
Weight: 37 g
Provenance: Private French collection of Madame V., prior to 1960
Bonhams, London, 13 April 2011: lot 112 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA719)
Caesar & Cleopatra, Historisches Museum Der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, 13 April – 26 October 2025
Bibliography: Bonhams, Antiquities including Property from the Collection of Sir Daniel Donahue, London, 13 April 2011, lot 112
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 94
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 6, fig. 2 and p. 83
A Hellenistic silver spoon probe with a horse’s head,
4th–1st century BC
See original version (French)
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