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Description : Egypt, Ptolemaic to Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 332 BCE to 2nd century CE. A fine pair of mold-formed pottery lamps with flat bases, rounded shoulders, small fill holes, and rounded wick spouts. The red-brown lamp depicts a low relief frog atop the raised center and bears an amphibious head, rotund body with a textured body, and thin legs with delineated toes. The beige lamp takes the form of a crocodile with a scaly body, small back legs flanking a conical tail, beady eyes, and a lengthy snout which doubles as the wick spout. Both lamps have a planta pedis (maker's mark) on their bases in the shape of an H which suggests these lamps were made in the same shop or by the same individual. Size of largest (crocodile): 2.9 W x 1.2 H (7.4 cm x 3 cm). These lamps and thirty-six others hammered for GBP 1,500 ($1,953) at Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, lot 96 [second row, fourth and sixth from the left]): Provenance: private Davis collection, Houston, Texas, USA, ex-Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, part of lot 96), ex-private English collection, formed in the 1970s, thence by descent All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #138709
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