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Lot 191

A Group of Seventeen Roman Oil Lamps and Lamp Handles

Lot 191

A Group of Seventeen Roman Oil Lamps and Lamp Handles

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $400 - $600

Estimate$400 – $600

Status

Closed

A Group of Seventeen Roman Oil Lamps and Lamp Handles

Circa 1st-4th Century A.D.

Length of largest 4 3/8 inches (11.11 cm).

Property from a California Private Collection

Provenance:

Skinner Auctioneers, Marlborough, Massachusetts, European Furniture & Decorative Arts, 12 January 2019, Lot 196. [part]

Daniel Bibb, Georgia.

Ahlers & Ogletree, Atlanta, Georgia, New Year's Signature Estates & Collections, 12-13 January 2019, Lot 499. [part]

Brauns Collection, Southern California, acquired in the 1960’s-1970’s.

Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2016. [by repute]

Tring Market Auctions, Tring, United Kingdom, Fine Art, 19 July 2013, Lot 54. [part]

Roseberys, West Norwood, United Kingdom, Quarterly Fine Art Auction, 20 March 2013, Lot 1008. [part]

Royal Athena Galleries, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2012. [by repute]

[Two Examples]

DuMouchelles, Detroit, Michigan, Antique Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewelry, 15 February 2019, Lot 20084. [part]

Associated Estate & Appraisal Co., Cranston, Rhode Island, Ancient Objects & Works of Art, 6 October 2018, Lot 370. [part]

[Five Examples]

Dr. Ritschel, Austria, 1960’s.

Galerie Alte Roemer, Hamburg, 2019.

Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Auktion 268 Kunst der Antike, 12 December 2019, Lot 718. [part]

Architect Paul-Henri LaPointe, Canada, acquired in Paris in the 1940’s-1960’s. IEGOR Auctions, Montreal, Canada, IEGOR-Discovery Auction, 13 December 2018, Lot 1275. [part]

Philip H. Huggins, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina, The Personal Collection of Mr. Philip H. Huggins, 14 November 2015, Lot 570. [part]

Private Collection, West Midlands, United Kingdom.

Trevanion Auctioneers & Valuers, Whitchurch, United Kingdom, March 2015. [by repute]

To request further details about this lot, please email samcowan@hindmanauctions.com

Sam Cowan

Associate Vice President, Head of Sale, Interiors Interiors

samcowan@freemansauction.com 312 280 1212

Sam Cowan is the Associate Vice President, Head of Sale, Interiors
Interiors by Freeman's.

Sam has spent his life in the auction industry, accompanying his father, Wes Cowan to auctions, trade shows and eventually to his own eponymous auction house, in the mid-1990s. He joined his father’s auction house, Cowan’s, full-time in 2012 in the Arms and Armor department and as a fine and decorative arts specialist, a department where he would ultimately become director. Sam has an interest in 20th century design, pottery, early advertising, historic Americana and antique firearms. He is a licensed auctioneer in three states and is a featured appraiser on The Antiques Roadshow.

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