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
[Signature] On replacement neck: Hasan al-Hindi; [Date] On replacement neck: A.H. 1158
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
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.