Polycandelon with Three Lamps

Object Name: 
Polycandelon with Three Lamps

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Object Name: 
Polycandelon with Three Lamps
Accession Number: 
63.1.30
Dimensions: 
a) Overall H: 11.1 cm, Diam: 8.6 cm; b) Overall H: 10.6 cm, Diam: 9 cm; c) Overall H: 11.4 cm, Diam 8.9 cm; d) H: 3.8 cm, W: 4.6 cm, Diam: 15 cm; d) Chains L: 32.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
500-599 or later
Primary Description: 
Polycandelon with Three Lamps. Colorless (a,b); almost colorless, with yellowish green tint (c); blown (glass); cast, manipulated (metal). Polycandelon consisting of (d) copper alloy hanger, three chains, and perforated disk, and (a-c) three glass lamps. (d) Hanger is hollow conical object with, at top, vertical flange with circular perforation and, at bottom, three tapering arms which extend out and down, and have perforations at lower ends, alternating with three smaller arms without perforations; each chain consists of twenty-two links made by bending wire to produce two loops, one at 90° to other; disk has openwork pattern consisting of two concentric circles connected by three small circles alternating with three radial struts which have perforated vertical flanges at outer ends; inner circle contains Maltese cross; outer circle has inner edge with one small, tooth-shaped projection on each side of all three struts and outer edge with sixteen pairs of small triangular projections alternating with sixteen scallops. (a) Lamp: beaker-shaped, with hollow stem. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall tapers, then straightens, curving in at bottom; floor flat; stems tapers and terminates in solid bulb. (b) Lamp: beaker-shaped, with hollow stem. Rim plain, with rounded lip; wall tapers, then straightens, curving in at bottom; floor pushed in from below; stem tapers and terminates in solid bulb which has been flattened at bottom. (c) Lamp: beaker-shaped, with hollow stem. Rim plain, with rounded lip made by folding in and down; wall tapers, then straightens, curving in at bottom; floor pushed in from below; stem tapers and terminates in solid bulb.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Vollmoeller, Heidi, Source
1962-07-17
Galerie fur Antike Kunst, Former Collection
1962
Category: 
Isurāmu garasu=Islamic glass/イスラーム・ガラス=Islamic glass/真道洋子著; 桝屋友子監修 (2020) illustrated, p. 33 (fig. 47);
Ancient and Islamic Glass: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2019) illustrated, pp. 92-93;
Glas : von den Anfängen bis ins Frühe Mittelalter (2016) illustrated, p. 93; BIB# 167711
Shades of Glass (2006) illustrated, Cover, row 2, far right; p. 20 bottom; BIB# 100967
Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One (1997) pp. 194-195, #340; p. 360, #340A-D; BIB# 58895
Le Monde Byzantin dans L'Histoire de la Verrerie (V-XVI siecle) (1970) illustrated, p. 80, fig. 43; BIB# 19074