- Title
- Oil Lamp
- Date Made
- 11th-13th century
- Medium
- Earthenware, applied decoration, cut and glazed
- Dimensions
- 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (5.71 x 9.52 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2002.1.48
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
Clay provided a cheap and easy means for mass-producing small oil lamps, and numerous examples survive from the late Roman period onward. Some such utilitarian lamps were playfully transformed into animals, like this quadruped, which may be a rat or a pig.