Byzantine large decorated oil lamp fragment
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A fragment from an unusual large moulded pottery oil lamp decorated with roundels containing animals.
Culture
Palestine, Byzantine, 6th to 8th Century AD
Size
5.6 x 8.8 cms
Condition
Fragment as shown
Provenance
Ex. collection: Victor Emile Gabriel Chevallier (Paris, France 1889-1969) and Marguerite Jeanne Verel (Paris, France 1887-1962). Thence from 1969 passed through three generations of the same Parisian family by inheritance.
For further information about Gabriel Chevallier, please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Chevallier
For a comparable bowl in the British Museum, please see:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1897-0317-3