Fustat / Lamp / Glaze / Clay (unfired)
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1970.04.0423
- Object Name
- Lamp
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Lamps
- Weight
- 136.3g
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Oil lamp. This small turquoise-glazed lamp is essentially a wheel-thrown saucer that is pinched to form the spout. It has a central chamber for oil. Glazed ceramic (Pearls of Wisdom, Gruber; Dimmig).
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Earliest Date
- 1200
- Latest Date
- 1499
- Verbatim Date
- 13th - 15th C AD
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Fustat
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan (exhibit)
- Exhibition Curator
- Gruber, Christiane
- Publication Title
- Pearls of Wisdom: The Arts of Islam at the University of Michigan
- Publication Author
- Gruber, Christiane; Dimmig, Ashley
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Class Title
- Working with Objects: Islamic Textiles, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, and Manuscripts (W2020)
- Visual Culture Islam (F2022)
- Class Instructor
- Gruber, Christiane
- Göloğlu, Sabiha
- Class Department
- HISTART
- Class Number
- 490.001
- 285
- Class Year
- 2020
- 2022
- Class Semester
- Winter
- Fall
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 1970.04.0423
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.04.0423/dsc_3590.jpg
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"Fustat; Lamp; Glaze; Clay (unfired)". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1970.04.0423/dsc_3590.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 01, 2023.