Drum-Shaped Candlestick

Description Conservation Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This drum-shaped candlestick is engraved and inlaid with silver and gold. It bears a large Tuluth inscription, and decorations with peonies and four roundels.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/28/1980	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Yeshiva University Museum, New York. 2013-2014.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] On replacement neck: Hasan al-Hindi; [Date] On replacement neck: A.H. 1158

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925

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Creator

Hasan-al Hindi (Repairer)

Period

Body: 14th century; Replacement Neck: 1745-1746 (Medieval)

Medium

brass with silver and gold inlay
(Metal)

Accession Number

54.458

Measurements

13 9/16 x 14 9/16 x 13 9/16 in. (34.5 x 37 x 34.5 cm)

Geographies

Egypt (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View