Early Islamic Pottery Oil Lamp

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Early Islamic Pottery Oil Lamp
CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Ummayad Dynasty, Syria or Palestine.

DATE: 7th – 8th Century AD
DIMENSIONS: 8.4 cm (3.3 in.) long; 5.8 cm (2.25 in.) wide.

DESCRIPTION: An early Islamic mould-made pottery oil lamp. The body has steeply sloping shoulders leading to a sharp carination angling downwards to a ring base, inside of which is a circle and central dot. The shoulder is decorated with two concentric rows of raised vertical dashes around the large fill hole, while the pointed nozzle has a raised edge and two obelisk-shaped motifs between the fill hole and wick hole. The handle is a stubby upright projection at the rear. There is a heavy soot deposit at the wick hole, two tiny chips at the edge of the fill hole and a thin layer of encrustation all over.

PROVENANCE: Formerly in a Welsh private collection formed between the 1970s and 2008.

PUBLISHED: Bonhams, London, ANTIQUITIES, 29 April, 2009, Lot #308, listed and illustrated on Page 175.

Item #CA-09-153

Price $175.00