拍品 309
309
A LARGE BRONZE MULTIPLE OIL LAMP, the heavy broad flat base with upturned rim rising in the centre to support the tall columnar shaft engraved with horizontal stripes and interrupted by various bosses, two rings with slots for arms, one of the two large bosses with diagonal fluting, the other pierced with an arabesque interlace, the upper circular lamp with pierced skirt, narrowing to the neck below the everted lip, the body with a band of twelve curving wick spouts, probably Indian circa 17th century

细节
A LARGE BRONZE MULTIPLE OIL LAMP, the heavy broad flat base with upturned rim rising in the centre to support the tall columnar shaft engraved with horizontal stripes and interrupted by various bosses, two rings with slots for arms, one of the two large bosses with diagonal fluting, the other pierced with an arabesque interlace, the upper circular lamp with pierced skirt, narrowing to the neck below the everted lip, the body with a band of twelve curving wick spouts, probably Indian circa 17th century
31¼in. (79cm.) high

拍品专文

The attribution of this multiple oil lamp is problematic. The oil lamp with multiple wicks ringing a central well is typically Indian. In those examples however the wicks are usually uncovered, rather than being in tubular cavities as here. The form of the base, and in particular the pierced boss below the lamp are easily parallelled in Ottoman metalwork (Petsopoulos, Y. (ed.): Tulips, Arabesques and Turbans, exhibition catalogue, London 1982, nos.43 and 47). An Indian origin is made more probable by the Indian engraved numerals by each socket on the lower stem bosses, reinforced by both the spiral fluting on the lower boss and the pierced trefoil skirt which is comparable to that on a small bowl of undoubted Indian provenance sold in these Rooms, 25 November 1985, lot 382