Bronze Oil Lamp with Leaf Pattern Handle, 100 CE - 300 CE
Bronze
4 x 2.25
Z.0046
In the presence of a graceful hanging lamp like this, we are made acutely aware that civilizations at their peak can make functional objects beautiful as well. We are also...
In the presence of a graceful hanging lamp like this, we are made acutely aware that civilizations at their peak can make functional objects beautiful as well. We are also aware that the familiar becomes the unseen. Could this lamp possibly have delighted its original owners as much as it does us today? Of course! For it answers some need to be surrounded by beauty that is as old as time.
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