Lamp with Benedictory Inscription, between 1200 and 1250

  • Persian

Leaded brass

  • Overall: 6 × 3 1/2 × 6 1/2 inches (15.2 × 8.9 × 16.5 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

30.437

Inscribed, Kufic script, around rim.

(Arthur Upham Pope)

1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Peck, Elsie Holmes. Images & Arabesques. Exh. cat., Sisson Gallery, Henry Ford Community College. Dearborn, Michigan, 1994, (ill.).

Persian, Lamp with Benedictory Inscription, between 1200 and 1250, leaded brass. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.437.