clioancientart:Weekend Fun Pic: Gifted by Clio Ancient Art to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento,
clioancientart:Weekend Fun Pic: Gifted by Clio Ancient Art to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California in 2010 and on view there - Roman Pottery Oil Lamp. 1st or early 2nd Century AD . 10 cm. (3.94 in.) long. A Roman mold made pottery oil lamp decorated with a quadriga (four-horse racing chariot), the horses all with front legs raised in mid-stride, the driver holding the reins in one hand and a whip in the other upraised hand, one of the wheels visible below him, all moving to the left. Formerly in the Peter Negus collection, formed from the 1920s on.Published, Bonham’s, ANTIQUITIES, 26 October, 2007 -- source link