Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2806. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Oil lamps] ROMAN. Italy. Pottery oil lamp. Circa 1st century AD. Length 13cm. Mold-formed with central motif of a servant filling a krater from a wine amphora. Potter’s mark M.NOV IVSTI on base. Fill hole on discus, tiny vent hole on edge, vestigial nubs on sides, ring handle. Pinkish colored clay with brick-red slip. Cf. Djuric, Anawati Collection 129 for potter. Choice condition, well preserved slip. A simple genre scene, but one that does not seem to appear elsewhere on oil lamps.

From the Dr. Robert B. Beckett Collection. Ex Antiqua XI (2002), Lot A22u.