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- Title
- Polycandelon for six oil lamps
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Coptic, Egypt
- Physical Description
- This bronze light fixture consists of a central circular celestial motif from which extend twelve arms in a radial pattern. Six of these arms, embellished with maltese crosses, end in omega-shaped terminals. These decorated arms alternate with six unadorned arms that terminate in rings designed to hold glass oil lamps. The entire disk is suspended from three bronze chains joined to a large hook.
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 500-599
- Accession Number
- 1965/2.54
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- bronze (metal)
- chandeliers
- coptic (christianity)
- egypt (nation)
- lamps (lighting devices)
- maltese crosses
- Title
- The Circumcision (Life of the Virgin Series)
- Artist
- Hendrick Goltzius
- Physical Description
- A crowd gathers in the side chapel of a church around a group of seated figures and an infant. A man with a long flowing beard sits and holds the infant in his hands above a plate, while another man leans forward in his chair and peers through his spectacles at the child as he performs a circumcision. A plaque with the artist's initials, "HG," lies on the floor in the foreground.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1558 - 1617
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1594
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.137
- Medium and Support
- engraving on ivory laid paper
- Primary Keywords
- chandeliers
- christianity
- churches
- circumcisions
- crowd
- Title
- Chandelier, from the library of the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- Chandelier consists of a bronze post with eight arms (inset with colored glass) from which hangs two rings of yellow translucent glass half-dome glass surrounding a single, large yellow glass half-dome globe in the center.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1890-1891
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.4
- Medium and Support
- favrile glass and bronze
- Primary Keywords
- architectural elements
- chandeliers
- Title
- Chandelier Fragments
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- Clouded glass and metal fragments of a chandelier. A ring of metal strands hold clouded glass orbs.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Object Creation Date
- 1890-1891
- Accession Number
- 2011/2.2.1
- Medium and Support
- glass and metal
- Primary Keywords
- chandeliers
- fragments
- glass