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LOT 0585
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
CYPRUS, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 in. (80.5 grams, 88 mm).
Shallow, round body with everted rim on the filler hole, tapering nozzle and low foot. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Private collection, Oxfordshire, UK, by direct descent from the collection of Judge George Cyril Griffith-Williams (1893-1983), Supreme Court Judge of the Colony of Cyprus; items having been collected in the 1930s and 1940s in Cyprus during his tenure there.
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