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Leaded bronze alloy lamp; cast; in the form of a much stylised bull couchant, exaggerated and extended to form two cylindrical nozzles, with upturned oval tips (one is largely lost); oval wick-hole; rectangular filling-hole in the bull's back, hinged for a lid (missing); ears pierced; flat resting-surface, with a hole broken through; tip of one horn lost; patchy dark and light green surfaces, with much bare metal and cuprite showing.
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