id:			128948
accession number:	1951.539
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.539
updated:		2023-04-01 11:07:50.159000

Candlestick, 1250–1350. Eastern Anatolia. Sheet brass inlaid with silver; overall: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 in.); diameter of base: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1951.539

title:				Candlestick
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series:				
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creation date:			1250–1350
creation date earliest:		1250
creation date latest:		1350
current location:		116 Islamic
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Eastern Anatolia
technique:	sheet brass inlaid with silver
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Metalwork
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 24.4 cm (9 5/8 in.); Diameter of base: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Islam and the Medieval West
	opening date:   1975-04-06T04:00:00
	<i>Islam and the Medieval West</i>. University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY, Binghamton, NY (organizer) (April 6-May 4, 1975).

	title:		Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-05-21T04:00:00
	<i>Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 21, 2021-May 31, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1951
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1951-
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digital description:


wall description:
Candlesticks were a common type of luxury good in the Islamic world during the medieval period. The extensive decoration on this piece is arranged in bands with roundels displaying birds in flight and leaf-like scrolls on a background of hexagonal swastikas. These ancient motifs are thought to have been sun symbols and were sometimes used as a background pattern for metalwork at this time.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 713
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n130

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 209
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n233

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 209
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n233

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 265
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n285

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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.539/1951.539_full.tif