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LOT 2079
Celtic Iron Lamp with Bull's Head
1ST CENTURY B.C.
27 in. (322 grams, 68.5 cm).
Elongated bowl-shaped lamp with pinched nozzle to accept the wick; tall curved handle with stylised bull's head finial, with a hole in the middle and a hook attached to the rounded muzzle; two lateral curved horns; chain composed of six straight links connected by hooks and loops.
Provenancewith Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Munich, Auction 254, 13 February 2008, no.421.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13522-263139.
cf. for a similar lamp Eisenberg, J., Art of the Ancient World, 2010, New York, 1965, no.179.
FootnotesThese kinds of boat-shaped Danubian Celtic lamps were hanging oil lamps fitted with a hanging shaft with knot decoration with horns, imitating the head of a bull, characterised by a curved end with an S-shaped hook.
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LOT 2079
Celtic Iron Lamp with Bull's Head
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000€4,640 - 6,960 (for guidance only)$5,400 - 8,100 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£2,100 (EUR 2,436; USD 2,835) ‡+BP*
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Opening Bid: £55
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Large Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Dragonesque Brooch
Celtic, 2nd century A.D.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £800
S-shaped with scrolled flourishes to the dragon-head terminals, remains of red enamelling to the stylised heads and body, eight rectangular cells to the body; free-running tongue with head coiled around the neck of one of the heads. 16.55 grams, 59 mm
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection. -
Celtic Iron Lamp with Bull's Head
1st century B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,100
Elongated bowl-shaped lamp with pinched nozzle to accept the wick; tall curved handle with stylised bull's head finial, with a hole in the middle and a hook attached to the rounded muzzle; two lateral curved horns; chain composed of six straight links connected by hooks and loops. 322 grams, 68.5 cm
with Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Munich, Auction 254, 13 February 2008, no.421. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13522-263139.
These kinds of boat-shaped Danubian Celtic lamps were hanging oil lamps fitted with a hanging shaft with knot decoration with horns, imitating the head of a bull, characterised by a curved end with an S-shaped hook.
