Description

Wheel-made pottery lamp with a central tube, an inturned concave rim, a narrow rounded shoulder, and a short rounded nozzle. Decorated with a red brownish slip, inside and outside on the rim. Knops at either side of the nozzle. 

Either a Howland Type 12A or 19A Greek oil lamp. Richard Hubbard Howland developed a refined typology for Greek lamps found within the ancient Greek city of Athens. (Howland 1958).

Culture

Greek

Dating

500 - 600 B.C.

Size

12,3 cm wide (back to nozzle), 4 cm high tube.

Provenance

Dutch collection. Bought at auction house Gorny & Mosch, with German export license. 

Formerly in the West German collection of Dr. J.E., in Germany since 1967 and since then in family ownership.

Condition

Overall great condition, part of nozzle reattached.