lamp;
replica
- Museum number
- 1983,0728.5
- Description
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Reproduction mould-made pottery lamp decorated on the discus with a head of Julius Caesar, with lituus; inscribed "IMP.IVLIVS CAESA", some letters reversed. On the nozzle is the number I. The shoulder is decorated in relief with ovules. At the rear is a ring handle. Within the base-ring is the relief inscription OTELCANA, the N reversed, with a ring-and-dot above and below. Covered with red and black paint, with black paint on the nozzle, and applied incrustation.
- Production date
- 19thC-20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 7.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Jones 1990
Replicas of Greek and Roman objects
From the period of the Grand Tour until the present day there has been a demand by travellers for souvenir copies of antiquities; museums and collectors have also wished to acquire replicas of well-known objects. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries especially foundries and electrotyping firms produced huge numbers of copies, many of which, their origin having been forgotten, appear as antiquities in collections, dealers' stock and museums. Several foundries were based in Naples, including the firms of J. Chiurazzi & Son, S. de Angelis & Son, and G. Sommer & Son. All these issued printed catalogues of their bronze products, which could be purchased in different sizes and different surface finishes; marble copies of certain items could also be acquired.
Other workshops, including perhaps Sommer, made terracotta versions of pottery lamps and vases; many of these were after the antique, rather than direct copies.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1983
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1983,0728.5