MacDougall Auctions 7-11 June 2010

7 June 2010

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SPAIN, ANDALUSIA (?), EARLY BYZANTINE, SECOND HALF OF THE 6TH TO EARLY 7TH CENTURY, BRONZE

137. GRIFFIN LAMP

SPAIN, ANDALUSIA (?), EARLY BYZANTINE, SECOND HALF OF THE 6TH TO EARLY 7TH CENTURY, BRONZE

Height 14.9 cm., with suspension 35.5 cm., length 20.5 cm.
9,000-12,000 pounds


Literature: A. Gonosová, C. Kondoleon, Art of Late Rome and Byzantium in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1994, cat. 85.


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