Elegant bronze oil lamp w horsehead handle, early Roman Imperial
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Bronze: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1492254
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Roman: Bronze: Pre AD 1000: Item # 1492254
$3,995.00
An elegant large and important bronze oil lamp, c. 1st-2nd. Century AD.
The cast lamp with foot-ring, pear-shaped body and spreading nozzle, the handle terminating in a finely cast head of a horse with slightly open mouthThe circular hole in the nozzle holds the wick. Interestingly, BMC has an almost identical style lamp, reportedly found at Qasr Ibrim, an important archaeological site in Lower Nubia, in the south of modern-day Egypt, which was then part of the Roman empire.
Size: Massive lamp c. 19 cm. long.
Condition: Choice Very fine, lovely mahogany coulered patina, reddish black. Filemarks and smaller chips, very sound metal.
Ex Old Danish Private Collection.
The cast lamp with foot-ring, pear-shaped body and spreading nozzle, the handle terminating in a finely cast head of a horse with slightly open mouthThe circular hole in the nozzle holds the wick. Interestingly, BMC has an almost identical style lamp, reportedly found at Qasr Ibrim, an important archaeological site in Lower Nubia, in the south of modern-day Egypt, which was then part of the Roman empire.
Size: Massive lamp c. 19 cm. long.
Condition: Choice Very fine, lovely mahogany coulered patina, reddish black. Filemarks and smaller chips, very sound metal.
Ex Old Danish Private Collection.
