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Room 31 | Islamic Middle East gallery

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Oil lamp with dome-shaped lid surmounted by a bird

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Iran (possible place of creation)
    Asia Afghanistan (possible place of creation)
    Date
    10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100)
    Material and technique
    brass, with openwork decoration
    Dimensions
    with lid 32 cm (height)
    without lid 14.5 cm (height)
    32.5 cm (diameter)
    Material index
    Technique index
    formed cast,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    2
    Credit line
    Purchased with the assistance of the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1983.
    Accession no.
    EA1983.27
  • Further reading

    Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 27 November 2012-28 April 2013, Les mille et une nuits, Elodie Bouffar and Anne-Alexandra Joyard, eds (Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe, 2012), cat. p. 392, illus. p. 251

Location

    • First floor | Room 31 | Islamic Middle East

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