Islamic Art
Candlestick
Metalwork
Details
- Author / creator
- Eastern Anatolia
- Object type
- Metalwork
- Date or period
- 1250–1350
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 24.4 cm; Diameter of base: 21.3 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Eastern Anatolia
- Period / style
- Gothic
- Place of origin
- Eastern Anatolia
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1951
About this object
Candlesticks were a common type of luxury good in the Islamic world during the medieval period. The extensive decoration on this piece is arranged in bands with roundels displaying birds in flight and leaf-like scrolls on a background of hexagonal swastikas. These ancient motifs are thought to have been sun symbols and were sometimes used as a background pattern for metalwork at this time.
Materials and technique
Sheet brass inlaid with silver
Signature and marks
none
