Whale Shaped Metal Lamp with Conical Base

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Whale Shaped Metal Lamp with Conical Base

bronze or lead
height 6.6 cm
length 12.7 cm
width 3.9 cm
base diameter: 4.4cm-4.7cm

Portland State University Middle East Studies Center
Bogue Lamp Collection, Lamp ID #290, PSU 046 (75)

 

Professor Anne Nicogorski, Willamette University, cited with permission

This metal lamp is of the Aladdin's lamp shape, having a circular pedestal base supporting a whale-shaped body. The nozzle is the "tail" and is upturned at the end. The fill hole is of the vase-neck variety but is now mostly broken. Shape: Lamp with cone-shaped pedestal base; elongated rounded body with long extended upcurving nozzle with ledge rim around wick hole; high vertical neck around fill hole opening; roughly crescent-shaped handle in back with two rivets for attachment of something, now missing. Decoration: None. Inscriptions: None. Condition: Broken around neck and upper body; much of neck missing; handle also broken; blackened; soil encrustation; whitish residue near handle; traces of green oxidation.

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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
Keywords: 
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.