East Greek Patera

This bronze bowl is decorated in its interior with an incised 16-petal rosette in the center of a larger 32-petal rosette that is framed by three, fine, concentric rings. Half of the circumference of the bowl is encased in a frame, the ends of which terminate in birds' heads. A delicate, curvilinear handle is threaded through two eyes in the frame. The terminals of the handles are also in the form of birds' heads.