1940.164: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1940.164
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 11th-12th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Egypt
- Period
- Ghurid period
- Culture
- Persian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216577
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brass
- Technique
- Cast
- Dimensions
- H: 31.8 x estimated diam: 17 cm (12 1/2 x 6 11/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.164
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Cast bronze five-spouted lamp on tall stand consisting of tripod base with stylised animals' feet and faceted shaft. The forms of the spouts hark back to Roman prototypes.
Publication History
- Eva Baer, Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY, 1983), page 14
Exhibition History
- Islamic Art From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1974
- Beyond the Surface: Scientific Approaches to Islamic Metalwork, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/2011 - 06/01/2013
Verification Level
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