Drum-Shaped Candlestick
(Islamic World )
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.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
2013-2014 | Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Yeshiva University Museum, New York. |
Conservation
Date | Description | Narrative |
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7/28/1980 | Examination | examined for condition |
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 13 9/16 × W: 14 9/16 × D: 12 13/16 in. (34.5 × 37 × 32.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.458