A Roman Bronze Lamp, 1st/2nd Century A.D.

in the form of the head of a sleeping African boy with flaring and voluted nozzle emerging from his open mouth, the hair arranged in three overlapping tiers of striated braids, the filling hole with pelta-shaped swivel lid, two of the three bronze suspension chains attached to the ears and one to the loop handle.

J.J. Klejman, New York, acquired before 1974
Sotheby's, New York, June 7th, 2007, no. 54, illus.