Description
Beautiful pewter box from Herman Bergman, adorned with a strict brass rectangle on top. Beautiful execution.
Stockholm 1941.
The images depicted are from the Bassai (sometimes spelt Bassae) Frieze, which was originally a part of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassai, in Greece.
The frieze is now on display at the British Museum and depicts a fight between the Greeks and Amazons, against the Centaurs and Lapiths.
