Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
Master Sculpture from Four Millennia
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Auction Closed
July 3, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Roman Bronze Oil Lamp
circa 1st/2nd Century A.D.
in the form of an ithyphallic satyr seated on the ground and raising his right hand, his left resting on his knee, his scowling face with long moustache and goatee, his hair falling in tight curls over the forehead, pointed ears and nape of the neck, the hinged lid for the filling hole missing, a ring handle at the back.
Height 9.9 cm.
Claude Bernard (1929-2022), Paris
Rémy le Fur & Associés, Paris, December 1st, 2023, no. 219, illus.
acquired by the present owner at the above sale
For a closely related example in the form of a Nubian boy see Sotheby’s, New York, December 6th, 2006, no. 50, illus. For other comparable lamps, see a bronze in Autun, Burgundy (Musée Rolin, Bronzes Figurés Antiques, 1975, p. 64, no. 96) and a provincial terracotta in Los Angeles (J. Bussière and B. L. Wohl, Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017, p. 431, no. 586).
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