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Lot 129*

A Roman bronze lamp

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman bronze lamp
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Pear-shaped with flaring nozzle and teardrop-shape fill hole, the arched handle terminating in a duck's head, 12cm long

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Provenance:
Japanese art market, early 1980s.

For similar, see Naples Museum, inv. no. 78537, where the lamp is still affixed to a larger candelabrum (J. Ward-Perkins and A. Claridge (eds), Pompeii AD79, London, 1976, no. 141a).

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