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CIVILIZATION | Greek |
PERIOD | Byzantine |
DATE | circa 5th-7th Century A.D. |
MATERIAL | Bronze |
MOUNTED | No |
The lamps elegant double-rod formed handle in the form of two scrolling acanthus tendrils, joined at the center and surmounted by a cross to act as a thumb rest, with a flaring nozzle and a separately cast pawn-shaped hinged lid, a square socket beneath the ring base for attachment to the stand; together with a charming lamp stand, the double lip reel-shaped drip pan flanked by a conical pricket, the baluster column decorated with knobs and moldings, supported by three legs with lion-paw feet. The base of the stand inscribed with three sets of monograms, perhaps names.
Peter and Ann Law Collection, UK, acquired in 1990.
Sotheby's, London, 13-14 December 1990, lot 454.
Sold for the benefit of Oxfam, People against Poverty.
English private collection, prior to 1970.
For a lamp and stand with similar scrolling foliate handles and baluster stand in the British Museum, see D. Buckton (ed.), Byzantium, the Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections, British Museum, 1994, p.108-9, no.119.
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CATEGORY | Greek |
PERIOD | Byzantine |
DATE | circa 5th-7th Century A.D. |
MATERIAL | |
MOUNTED | No |