The oil lamp has a flattened globular body, a long open spout with a circular small mouth, a double ring-handle with an elaborate thumb piece, with a floral hinged lid.The body of the lamp, which stands on quiet a high pedestal stool, is decorated with small circular vegetal motifs and bird motifs.

Regarding oil lamps in the Muslim religion, the Quran (24:35) cites that: “God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His light is, as it were, that of a niche containing a lamp; the lamp is [enclosed] in glass, the glass [shining] like a radiant star: [a lamp] lit from a blessed tree - an olive-tree that is neither of the east nor of the west the oil whereof [is so bright that it] would well-nigh give light [of itself] even though fire had not touched it: light upon light! God guides unto His light him that wills [to be guided]; and [to this end] God propounds parables unto men, since God [alone] has full knowledge of all things".