Art Funded
Wilshere Collection
© Ashmolean Museum
Unknown
Ashmolean Museum
3rd-4th Century
The collection consists of 34 fragments of gold-glass and 23 sculptured reliefs and inscriptions. The objects were originally from Roman catacombs and display a wide variety of Christian, Jewish and pagan themes. Highlights include a relief showing a banqueting scene and a bowl fragment depicting scenes from the life of Christ.
- Medium: gold-glass & marble
- Dimensions: various dimensions
- Art Fund Grant: £85000 ( Total: £250,000)
- ArtFunded in: 2007
- Vendor: Governors of Pusey House
Provenance
Collection of Charles Willes Wilshere (19814-1906); Pusey House; on loan to the Ashmolean Museum from 1975.
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