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THBLot of 2 Egyptian Pottery Frog Lamps, ex-Bonhams
Lot 8a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Egypt, Ptolemaic to Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 332 BCE to 2nd century CE. A fine pair of mold-formed pottery lamps with flat bases, rounded shoulders, small fill holes, and rounded wick spouts. The red-brown lamp depicts a low relief frog atop the raised center and bears an amphibious head, rotund body with a textured body, and thin legs with delineated toes. The beige lamp takes the form of a crocodile with a scaly body, small back legs flanking a conical tail, beady eyes, and a lengthy snout which doubles as the wick spout. Both lamps have a planta pedis (maker's mark) on their bases in the shape of an "H" which suggests these lamps were made in the same shop or by the same individual. Size of largest (crocodile): 2.9" W x 1.2" H (7.4 cm x 3 cm).
These lamps and thirty-six others hammered for GBP 1,500 ($1,953) at Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, lot 96 [second row, fourth and sixth from the left]): https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20667/lot/96/?category=grid&length=560&page=1
Provenance: private Davis collection, Houston, Texas, USA; ex-Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, part of lot 96); ex-private English collection, formed in the 1970s, thence by descent
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#138709Both lamps have surface wear and abrasions commensurate with age, small nicks to bases, shoulders, and wick spouts, minor char marks to wick spout of crocodile lamp, and light fading to raised details. Light earthen deposits throughout.Condition
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