Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

About this Work

The lamp was cast in three pieces, the body, the handles, and the lid; it rests on a high conical foot with a square peghole underneath. This continues as a spike upward within the body, having once taken in the tip of the stand. The gently rounded body ends in a large, round nozzle with a central, sunken wickhole. The lid is shallow on conical, topped by a small cross; it is attached to the body by a hinge.

The large handle has been fastened into a rectangular socket-like protrusion at the end of the body; from it grow the two large leaf sprays which curl forward like the top of a bishop’s staff, elongated triangular leaves sprouting at various intervals. Spanning the front part of the two sprays, a volute scroll supports a second cross in the center axis of the lamp.