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THE HADDAD COLLECTION OF ANCIENT EROTIC ART, PART II
A ROMAN TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN TERRACOTTA OIL LAMP
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Red-slipped, with a round nozzle and small ring handle, the discus molded with a woman acrobatically performing fellatio, the man reclining on a bed to the right, his mantle draped across his right shoulder, his raised right arm holding the right ankle of his lover who balances on her forearms before him, the woman nude but for a breast band, anklets and an armlet, with a workshop signature on the base reading QNVMICII
4¾ in. (12 cm.) long
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Red-slipped, with a round nozzle and small ring handle, the discus molded with a woman acrobatically performing fellatio, the man reclining on a bed to the right, his mantle draped across his right shoulder, his raised right arm holding the right ankle of his lover who balances on her forearms before him, the woman nude but for a breast band, anklets and an armlet, with a workshop signature on the base reading QNVMICII
4¾ in. (12 cm.) long
Provenance
Nancy Mallen, London, 1972.