In the early 1900s, a rich collection of silver articles was unearthed from a tomb near the city of Bursa in the Marmara Region of Turkey. The exact circumstances of the treasure's discovery remains unclear but soon after it was found it was sold to the British Museum by the London art dealer W. C. Bacon & Co. The lack of provenance has made it difficult to determine who the hoard originally belonged to, but most of the extant objects indicate that it was probably part of an elite Roman lady's toiletry from the 1st century AD.