Roman Samian Ware Terracotta Dish With Potters’ Name
Item Description
C. 1st-2nd Century AD
A nice example of a terra sigillata or samian ware dish with an orange/red slip, decorated with incised concentric bands to the interior. It features an impressed potters’ name to centre and sits on a small ring foot.
Although a fragment with some surface deposits to base, it has good detail and colour.
Provenance: Deceased Estate of an East Anglian school teacher who later retired to the Isle of Wight. A keen collector and antiquarian who amassed a collection between the 1960’s-1980’s.
Size: 171mm diam
£190.00
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