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Hanging Lamp
This hanging lamp and its companion, no. 54.258, are made in the shape of "mosque lamps" but were unearthed in Padua in Northern Italy. The presence of four angels and a Latin inscription--AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS... (Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord ...)" suggest that these were not made for the Eastern market but rather for an Italian patron that wished to honor the Virgin Mary as having given birth to the Light of the World while enjoying a touch of the exotic East.
Inscription
Provenance
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Church of San Felice, Padua; buried in 1797; unearthed in the house of the Locatelli family, via Cappelli, Padua, 1908; Egidio Indri, Padua, by purchase; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2006-2007 | Venice and The Islamic World, 827-1797 (Venise et l'Orient). Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris Cedex 05; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
Measurements
Overall: 11 1/16 in. (28.1 cm)
Overall1: 11 1/16 x 10 9/16 in. (28.1 x 26.8 cm)
Overall2: 10 9/16 in. (26.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.259