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    The Silver Caesars: Renaissance masterpieces reunited after a century

    Exhibition tries to solve what Mary Beard describes as ‘greatest jigsaw puzzle on earth’
    by Maev Kennedy Apr 12, 2018 2 minutes
    Figure of Otho. The Caesars were gilded in the 19th century. Photograph: photo/Handout

    Even the Rothschilds, some of the wealthiest collectors in Victorian Europe, never saw anything like the treasure now displayed in a drawing room at one of their palatial houses, Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire.

    The Silver Caesars – statuettes, bases and bowls known as , each over a foot tall and made from more than six pounds of silver – have been briefly reunited after being separated

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