Bronze lampstand - image 1

Archaic

Bronze lampstand

Bronze lampstands were luxury objects that were made in various sizes and in more Near Eastern or more Egyptian styles. H.: 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)

Date

750 - 480 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5683

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4967, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1277, p. 368, New York: Gilliss Press.Raubitschek, Isabelle K. 1978. "Cypriot Bronze Lampstands in the Cesnola Collection of the Stanford University Museum of Art." The Proceedings of the Xth International Congress of Classical Archaeology : Ankara-İzmir, 23-30/IX/1973. pp. 699, 701 n. 8, pl. 215, 1, Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimeri.