65 ROMAN BRONZE LAMP WITH HORSE HEAD HANDLE, with elongated body and long, splayed, and fluked nozzle. Handle terminating in a calyx from which emerges a horse’s head. Ca. AD 50-79. L. 5 5/8 in. (14.5 cm.) Ex German private collection near Munich, acquired between 1991 and 2005. Cf. D.M. Bailey, A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum IV,1996, p. 41 Q 3674; pl. 49 Q, no. 3674. 66 ROMAN BRONZE LAMP IN THE FORM OF A THEATER MASK The grinning, bald, and beardlesss countenance forming the upper portion of the lamp, the mouth as the fill-hole, the opening for the wick beneath his chin. Ca. 2nd Century AD. L. 4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) Ex French collection, acquired at the Drouot, Paris, June 2005. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVII, 2006, no. 59. Cf. J. Petit, Bronzes Antiques de la Collection Dutuit, Paris, Petit Palais, 1980, no. 66.
Roman Pottery 67 ROMAN POTTERY OIL LAMP; DISCUS: JUGGLER AND MONKEY Loeschcke I type, the discus with a young juggler seated by his monkey, a dog climbing a ladder at right, two rings in the field behind the youth and a standing cup in front of him. 1st Century AD. L. 4 1/2 in. (11.6 cm.) A very rare subject. Ex German collection; J.M.E. collection, acquired in the Munich art market, December 2007.
Ancient Ter racottas
Lamps
68 ROMAN POTTERY LAMP; DISCUS: MORAY EEL DEVOURING A HYDRA, a snail shell in the field. A very rare subject. 1st Century AD. L. 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in the Munich art market, June 2011.
69 ARCHAIC BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA FEMALE with bird-like face, flat body on a splaying base, with short arms, wearing a flaring polos with large projecting volute; dark brown painted details. Ca. 580-550 BC. H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) Ex Rhenish collection, acquired in the 1970s. 70 ARCHAIC GREEK TERRACOTTA PROTOME OF A GODDESS, possibly Demeter, in fine style; traces of white slip remaining. Thessaly, late 6th-early 5th Century BC. H. 4 5/8 in. (12 cm.) Ex van Driesum collection, France. 71 HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA LADY OF FASHION wearing a diadem and wrapped in a himation; extensive polychromy remaining. Corinth, 2nd Century BC. H. 12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.) Ex collection of LouisGabriel Bellon (1819-1899) Saint-Nicolas-lesArras, France; thence by descent. Published: F. Winter, Die Antiken Terrakotten, vol. III-2, 1903, p. 24. From the same workshop as the Tyche a la Corne d’Abundance, in S. Besques, Figures et Reliefs, vol III, Musée du Louvre, 1972, no. D297, pl. 62D.
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