Oil Lamp
c. 1350
| Place of origin |
Islamic metalwork
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Brief description | Islamic metalwork |
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| Production | A very similar oil lamp exists in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest (object number: 45-1914) which has been attributed by D. Behrens-Abouseif to late Mamluk Damascus; possibly c. 1350 (see References). |
| Bibliographic reference | For a comparable object see: D. Behrens-Abouseif, "A Late Mamluk Oil-Lamp in the Hungarian National Museum" in P. Baker & B. Brend (eds.), Sifting Sands, Reading Signs: Studies in Honour of Professor Geza Fehervari (London: Furnace 2006): 155-60; pl. XVI. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.215-1929 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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