Round Bronze Lamp with Heart-Shaped Handle

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Round Bronze Lamp with Heart-Shaped Handle

bronze
height 2.5 cm
length 11.9 cm
width 6.8 cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #293, PSU 044 (73)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This metal lamp is circular with a heart-shaped handle and large round wick hole protruding from opposite ends. The top is pierced by a number of holes in a random pattern. When viewed from the side it can be seen that there is a loop handle under the heart-shaped one. There is a hole close to the short, upturned nozzle. Shape: Round bodied lamp with slightly concave disk base; five concentric ridges on underside; slightly convex side walls; flat disk top; discus pierced by 14 small holes, one in center and others random; short nozzle curving up from side of body; ledge rim around wick hole, ring handle with two horizontal ridges below small heat shield in shape of ivy leaf. Decoration: Pair of concentric circles around central hole on discus; another incised circle around outer edge of discus. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Mostly complete; hole in side wall; wick hole chipped; chip from tip of heat shield; patches of bronze disease and whitish residue on underside

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Portland State University Middle East Studies Center - Public Access
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Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
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Metal Arts, Utilitarian Objects
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Lamp
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Image reproduced with permission from Portland State University Middle East Studies Center. The institutions that house the specific Medieval Portland objects ultimately hold the rights to their image and reproduction; the images are provided here as a courtesy by those institutions and are for non-profit, educational use only.