Cairo / Mosque Lamp / Copper / Glass

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.09.1616a
Object Name: Mosque Lamp
Lot: Ruthven, Dr. Alexander G. (Undetermined dates)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Lamps
Materials: Copper; Glass
Weight: frame: 3041.8gchain: 826.5g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Lamp, metal, hanging, consisting of a cast six-sided structure made from open filagreecopper alloy, probably brass. The bottom of the lamp has six large and six small circular openings where glass lamps are suspended. A decorative copper alloy chain; has decorative medallions and 3 metal balls suspended at intervals along its length, as well as one cone-shaped metal element (which appears original). There are 10 modern metal pieces that go with the lamp; 1 circular shaped band, 1 cylinder shaped piece, 2 bell shaped pieces and 6 lozenge shaped pieces. There is also one small modern; threaded metal knob
Verbatim Date: 15th-early 16th C AD
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Cairo
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Exhibition Title: Fragments from the Past: Islamic Art from the Collection of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Passionate Curiosities
Exhibition Curator: Johnson, Dawn; Root, Margaret Cool
Exhibition Year: 2015
Type Category: Artifact

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.09.1616a
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.09.1616a/dsc_1704.jpg

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Full citation: "Cairo; Mosque Lamp; Copper; Glass." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.09.1616a/dsc_1704.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.