Hanging Lamp

15th century (Renaissance) Overall: 11 1/16 in. (28.1 cm)Overall1: 11 1/16 x 10 9/16 in. (28.1 x 26.8 cm)Overall2: 10 9/16 in. (26.8 cm) Citation Source image

This hanging lamp and its companion, no. 54.258, are made in the shape of "mosque lamps" but were unearthed in Padua in Northern Italy. The presence of four angels and a Latin inscription--AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMINUS... (Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord ...)" suggest that...

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Church of San Felice, Padua; buried in 1797; unearthed in the house of the Locatelli family, via Cappelli, Padua, 1908; Egidio Indri, Padua, by purchase; Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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