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LOT 0288
Western Asiatic Bronze Lamp Stand
CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.
24 1/4 in. (4.25 kg, 61.5 cm high).
Hollow-formed with openwork bulb to each end and narrow columnar shaft; discoid platter with raised rim; tripod base with dome and low-relief scrollwork. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a family collection formed in the 1970s-1980s.
From the Inglismaldie Castle estate, Angus, Scotland, by descent to the current owner.
Literature
See Fehérvári, G., Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, for discussion.
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