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Keywords: Turkish - Mosque Lamp - Walters 481301 - View A.jpg Islamic religious buildings traditionally were lit with glass lamps generally called mosque lamps that hung from chains In 16th-century Turkey it was common to make mosque lamps from glazed ceramic and to pair them with round or oval ornaments Such ceramic pieces were of little use as lighting fixtures They may have functioned however as acoustic devices hung in groups to soften the echo of voices in the prayer hall Mosque lamps were also symbols of divine light and therefore of God's presence in the place of prayer while the ornamental spheres symbolized the orb of heaven This beautiful Iznik Rhodianware ceramic lamp is adorned with the names of God and the Prophet- Allah and Muhammad- followed by those of the first four leaders of the Islamic caliphate or government Abu Bakr Umar Uthman and Ali The inscribed names written in a large Arabic script called thuluth confirm that the lamp was intended for symbolic as well as aesthetic purposes late Other date century 16 Atasoy and Raby give c 1580-1585 Early Modern fritware with underglaze decoration cm 32 5 21 5 ; Top Diam cm 18 diam accession number 48 1301 28411 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore before 1909 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters before 1909 Inscription Names of God Muhammad Abu Bakr Umar Uthman Ali Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World Asia House Gallery New York; Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati; Seattle Art Museum Seattle; Saint Louis Art Museum St Louis 1979 The Here and the Hereafter Images of Paradise in Islamic Art Asia Society New York; Hood Museum of Art Hanover; Bowdoin College Museum of Art Brunswick; University Art Gallery University of California Berkeley Berkeley; Springfield Museums Springfield 1991 place of origin Iznik Turkey Atasoy Nurhan; Raby Julian 1989 Iznik The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey London Alexandra Press ISBN 978-1-85669-054-6 pages 262-263 fig 569 Walters Art Museum license Islamic art in the Walters Art Museum Art from Turkey İznik ceramics Ceramic or metal mosque lamp
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