Auction 001 Part 2
TimeLine Auctions Antiquities Sale - Day 2
By TimeLine Auction Limited
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Mar 6, 2024
The Court House, 363 Main Road, Harwich, CO12 4DN, UK
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- Egyptian (Lots 451-524)
- Greek (Lots 525-647)
- Roman (Lots 648-751)
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- Roman (Lots 752-948)
- Byzantine (Lots 949-990)
- Archaeological Books (Lots 991-1093)
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LOT 898:
Roman Buffware Slipper Oil Lamp
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Sold for: £35
Start price:
£
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Estimated price :
£40 - £60
Buyer's Premium: 36%
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Roman Buffware Slipper Oil Lamp
Circa 4th-5th century A.D.. Moulmade with large handle; squat pear-shaped body, open discus with large central filling hole surrounded by two rows of radiating lines and ridge that forms a narrow channel to the nozzle; base decorated with a stylised Chrismon. Cf. Lighfoot, C.S., The Cesnola collection of Cypriot Art - Terracotta Oil Lamps, cat.430, p.325, for the type. 78 grams, 94 mm (3 3/4 in.).
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
The type belongs probably to a variant of so-called Late Ephesian Lamps, i.e. lamps of Asia Minor. Late Ephesian type lamps have very characteristic underbodies. Several examples have an impressed circular mark, for example a cross formed of four vertically placed small circles with two more placed horizontally, or a Chi Rho, like in this example. [No Reserve]
