On view
Lampstand
Alternate Title: Candle Holder (B) and Base (A)
Lighting Device
Islamic
, 6th-7th century
Byzantine period, Early, c. 330-867
Creation Place:
Eastern Mediterranean
Bronze
actual: 24.6 cm (9 11/16 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
, 1975.41.141.A-C
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
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Bibliography
Pagan and Christian Egypt: Egyptian Art from the First to the Tenth Century A.D., exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1941), cat. 89
Prof. Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 197/fig. 110
Prof. Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 197/fig. 110
Exhibition History
Byzantine Women and Their World, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/25/2002 - 04/28/2003
Beyond the Surface: Scientific Approaches to Islamic Metalwork, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/2011 - 06/01/2013