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Lot 83*

A Sardinian bronze boat-shaped lamp

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Sardinian bronze boat-shaped lamp
Nuragic Period, circa 8th Century B.C.
The open vessel with a stylised bull's head prow, with a long muzzle, small ears and large curving horns, with four notched bands decorating the exterior of the vessel, a double-legged arching element forming a handle, surmounted by a suspension loop, 13cm long, 5.5cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, Austria, acquired in the 1960s in Vienna.

For a similar lamp with bull's head prow and notched moulding on the exterior of the vessel, see Kunst Sardiniens, Baden State Museum catalogue, 1980, p. 403-4, fig. 180.

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