Bronze lampstand - image 1

Archaic II

Bronze lampstand

Short stem decorated with one row of lotus petals. 11 1/4in. (28.6cm)

Date

599 - 500 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5638

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4963, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1278, 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.