6¹⁄₂ in. (16.5 cm.) diameter

with Galerie für Griechische, Römische und Byzantinische Kunst, Frankfurt.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 1973.

K. Alexander and M. Greuel, Private Taste in Ancient Rome: Selections from Chicago Collections, Chicago, 1990, no. 12.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Private Taste in Ancient Rome: Selections from Chicago Collections, 3 March-16 September 1990.

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The Three Graces were worshiped in the Greek world as Goddesses of fertility associated with Aphrodite. As their Greek name the Charities suggests, they were also associated with charm, beauty and favor and were thus an appropriate subject for objects of vanity, especially mirrors. For a similar example see no. 436 in C. Picón, et al., eds., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.