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LOT 1323
Seljuk Bronze Oil Lamp Handle
11TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (53 grams, 10 cm).
Formed as a loop with a stylised bird perched above. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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