A Roman bronze medical curette, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 1st - 3rd century CE Seals - Cylinder which appears to guarantee clothing

which appears to guarantee clothing to the deceased

Liddy painted her father’s Jukurrpa stories

Judy was at the forefront of a movement towards more abstract rendering of Jukurrpa by Warlpiri artists

Provenance: Alex Malloy collection

The layered construction reflects the sophisticated techniques employed by Egyptian craftsmen

A Roman bronze medical curette, Roman Imperial Period, ca. 1st - 3rd century CE Seals - Cylinder which appears to guarantee clothingThis finely preserved bronze medical instrument is a Roman curette probe, a specialized tool used by physicians in the examination and treatment of patients. Fashioned from a single piece of bronze, it combines two distinct working ends: a slender pointed probe and a small hooked curette. The probe was employed to examine wounds, apply medicaments, or explore bodily cavities, while the curette was used for scraping or debriding biological tissue or