Siobhan Quin
Senior Specialist
Various Properties
Lot 5*
A Cypriot bronze lamp holder
3 July 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £6,000
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Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
A Cypriot bronze lamp holder
Cypro-Archaic II, circa 6th Century B.C.
23cm high
23cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private Collection H.M., Germany.
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, Antiquities, 12 April 2000, lot 307.
with Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel, 2000.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above in 2007.
Cf. two similar lamp holders in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.no.74.51.5639 and 74.51.5641, both formerly in the Cesnola collection. It is noted that the form likely originated with the Phoenicians. Examples are also held in the British Museum (acc.nos.1891,0806.84, 1894,1101.240, 1896,0201.303), as well as the Louvre, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Antikensammlung in Berlin (inv. Ant. Misc.8142,547 in S. Brehme, M. Brönner, V. Karageorgjis, et. al., Antikensammlung Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike Kunst aus Zypern, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2002, p.173, no.186, said to be from the royal necropolis of Tamassos, section. IV, tomb 16). For a fuller discussion of the known examples, see I. K. Raubtschek, 'Cypriote Bronze Lamp Stands in the Cesnola Collection of the Standford University Museum of Art', in Proceedings of the Xth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Ankara, 1978, pp.699-707.