Cairo / Mosque Lamp / Copper / Glass
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.09.1616a
- Object Name
- Mosque Lamp
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- 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
- Record
- 0000.09.1616a
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.09.1616a/dsc_5878.jpg
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"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_5878.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.