- Title
- Lamp
- Date Made
- 12th-13th century
- Medium
- Glass, applied handles
- Dimensions
- 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.34 x 9.53 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2002.1.13
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
Lighting is an essential requirement of daily life in all times and places. In the early and medieval Islamic periods, glass lamps were used to illuminate small private spaces or, if grouped together, a larger public space such as a mosque. Likely intended for personal use, this lamp, with its bulbous body and flaring neck, has a distinctive shape that continued in later Islamic times and was especially popular for so-called mosque lamps from fourteenth-century Egypt, where they were enlarged and embellished with gilding and enameling, and suspended from the ceiling (see
