This bronze lamp is in the form of a youth
with upswept hair, perhaps a satyr, seated
on a low circular base and holding the spout
with both hands before him. He wears an
animal skin tied around his neck, the tuft
tail curving out and resting on his back to
form the ring-handle, and a Phrygian cap
hinged to form the lid for the fitting-hole,
the upward-curving tapering spout emerging
from a calyx.
Cf. Musee Rolin, Bronzes Figures Antiques,
no. 96.
- (LA.547)
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