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FOUR OIL LAMPS

Estimate200 - 300
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Terracotta items, including two so-called Egyptian ‘frog’ lamps, one of which is marked on the top with a symbol resembling a stylised djed pillar.
Various periods.
Widths: 7.5 to 13.5 cm
(In good overall condition)

– Collection of Albert Ceysens (1877–1956), managing director of the Cairo Sugar Company (Egypt), who died there.
– Collection of Suzanne Ceysens (1914–2003), daughter of the above, who left Egypt in 1952 to settle in Belgium
.– Passed down through inheritance to the present day.