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LOT 0542
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
CIRCA LATE 5TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 in. (56 grams, 90 mm).
Shallow, round body with inturned rim to the central vent, square-ended nozzle and low foot; lateral lugs forming attachment points for a handle (absent); old collector's labels to underside and '1801' to nozzle; typed data panel. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of the late Bernard C.
Pickard, Hampshire, UK, the owner of Bernard C.
Pickard Antiquities, which closed in 1987, he had been collecting since the mid 1950s.
Accompanied by a typed information display card.
Bernard Pickard was a close friend of Richard Hattatt, the renowned author of several books on ancient brooches. Hattatt acknowledges in his first book, Ancient & Romano-British Brooches, published in 1982, that Mr Pickard first aroused his interest in brooches and inspired him in writing his books during his retirement. Mr Pickard also wrote the foreword to the section on Roman animal brooches, op.cit.
p.158-160.
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