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LOT 0133
Roman Bronze Pricket Candlestick
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (95.7 grams total, 99 mm including stand).
Pricket formed as a baboon crouching on a tiered base with bun feet; the animal wearing a pounced hood with tall octagonal-section spike above; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. similar baboon figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under object number: 30.8.348.
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