Roman 'Chancery Lane' Terracotta Oil Lamp 1st century A.D. A terracotta oil lamp composed of a circular discus, tapering sidewalls, volute nozzle embellished with scrolls, moulded acanthus leaves to the discus with central filling hole; 'Clodivs / fecit' written into the base when wet. See Bussière, J., Lindros Wohl, B., Ancient Lamps in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2017, p.75, no.94, for the type. 85 grams, 11.1 cm wide (4 3/8 in.). Found Chancery Lane, London, UK, in 1865. From a 19th century collection and latterly in a London collection. Accompanied by a small original handwritten card: 'Under the new building in Chancery Lane AD 1865'. The lamp belongs to the Loeschcke type IB nozzle form (Bailey type A group III), variant C (Bussière, Lindros Wohl, 2017, fig.1) and it is with all probability of the Augustean-Tiberian period, mainly produced in North Africa, by the workshop of a certain Clodius. These kind of lamps were mould made in a plaster mould.