- Object Name:
- Hanukkah Lamp
- Place Made:
- Central Anti-Atlas Mountains (Morocco)
- Date:
- 19th century
- Medium:
- Copper alloy: cast and enameled
- Dimensions:
- 8 × 5 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (20.3 × 14.6 × 6.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman
- Accession Number:
- F 3804
Not On View
This lamp belongs to a cast group made in the Atlas Mountains whose surface is ornamented with vinework executed in thick raised lines. The enamel that fills the voids left by the raised decoration is a rare survival on Moroccan Hanukkah lamps; it is typical of work in the Central Anti-Atlas Mountains, found, for example, on rifles and daggers of the nineteenth century.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.