Silver dish with niello decoration from the Mildenhall
treasure
Roman Britain, 4th century AD
Found in Mildenhall, Suffolk
With a diameter of 55.6 cm and weight of 5,023 grammes, this
platter is not much smaller than the Great Dish, but its decoration
belongs to a more restrained tradition, carried out simply in
engraved lines filled with niello, silver sulphide which provides a
black contrast to the silver.
K.S. Painter, The Mildenhall Treasure-1 (London, 1977)