ROMAN BRONZE OIL LAMP WITH RAM’S HEAD HANDLE ON STAND. Ca. AD 200 - 400. A bronze lamp and a stand. The lamp has a globular body with a raised collar around the filling hole, and an elongated spout flanked by volutes that projects to a rounded nozzle. A ring handle at the rear rises to a ram’s-head thumb-rest. The stand is columnar with stacked elements and a flat drip tray, above a domed foot on three splayed legs. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 28.138a, b, 10.130.1349. Size: 160mm x 80mm; Weight: 256g Provenance: From an old British collection formed in the 1990s; previously acquired in Holland. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.