Oil Lamp in the Shape of an African's Head

ca. 1540 (Renaissance)

7.8 cm 4 cm 4 cm

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Oil lamps in the shape of a head of an animal or person were created in Italy during the Renaissance in imitation of similar ones made by the ancient Romans. 17th-century collectors could not tell the difference and collected the Renaissance examples as “antiquities.” This oil...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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5
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माध्यम
bronze
विधा
lamps

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