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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. Functional objects like this were used to illuminate all kinds of spaces, including tombs and mosques, as well as domestic and secular spaces. While the base dates to the 14th century in Egypt, the neck, a replacement for an earlier loss, was made in Türkiye centuries later.
Inscription
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. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 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