Property sold to benefit the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
A Roman Bronze Oil Lamp, 1st Century A.D.
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July 6, 12:03 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property sold to benefit the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
A Roman Bronze Oil Lamp
1st Century A.D.
with ring foot and circular body merging into two spade-shaped nozzles and flanked by bull protomes, each nozzle set out from the body by a collar terminating in twin rosettes, two ducks each with head for suspension flanking the sunken discus.
Height 15.5 cm; length 39 cm.
gift of John Joseph Albright, Buffalo, New York, to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1955
For related 1st Century A.D. twin-nozzled lamps (with elephant protomes) see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1873-0820-160 and J. Bussière and B. Lindros Wohl, Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2017, no. 625. For multi-nozzled lamps with bull protomes see V. Mele, Catalogo delle Lucerne in bronzo. Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli, 1981, pp. 61-62, nos. 128-129, and p. 124, nos. 297-298.
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