Allen Memorial Art Museum No. 1 / Ohio

Listed, described and illustrated in Cahn (1979-1999, vol. II: 264) as a work of doubtful authenticity. It is a rectangular marble basin with chamfered underbowl and raised on six colonnettes over a rectangular plinth. The sides of the basin are ornamented with a three-strand tape which twists to create framed spaces in which motifs are included; the front side shows the tape framing a central square, with two roundels on each side of it: the central frame includes a human figure and a plant (?); the round ones include animals, some of them fighting (?). The tall chamfer has, on its front side, a garland around an anagram (?), with an animal motif on either side of it, all framed in a band of dark six-pointed stars. The colonnettes of the base have capitals and bases and their stems have spiral fluting. The object is described as being in marble with Cosmati inlay, in the Siculo-Campanian style [Cahn has as doubtful]