Description
Rare tripod bronze oil lamp base, baluster shaft, molded cup with wide inverted rim, four-sided pyramidal spike. Byzantine art, 6th / 8th century H. 30 cm (oxidation) The oil lamps were either placed on a support like the one presented here, or suspended by chains. A similar model with the lamp is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv 1970.45) but also in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, (inv 6113M) (fig A and B). Book consulted: De Byzance à Istanbul, un port pour deux continents, catalog of the exhibition Galeries Nationales Grand Palais, 10 October 2009 - 25 January 2010, Paris, 2009, p 119
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Rare tripod bronze oil lamp base, baluster shaft, molded cup with wide inverted rim, four-sided pyramidal spike. Byzantine art, 6th / 8th century H. 30 cm (oxidation) The oil lamps were either placed on a support like the one presented here, or suspended by chains. A similar model with the lamp is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv 1970.45) but also in the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul, (inv 6113M) (fig A and B). Book consulted: De Byzance à Istanbul, un port pour deux continents, catalog of the exhibition Galeries Nationales Grand Palais, 10 October 2009 - 25 January 2010, Paris, 2009, p 119
