Lamp with Griffin-Head Handle
300s-400s
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Lamp with Griffin-Head Handle, 300s-400s. Byzantium, Syria?, early Byzantine period, 4th-5th century. Bronze; overall: 14.7 x 22.6 x 7 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp in honor of William Mathewson Milliken on his 85th year 1974.77
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14.7 x 22.6 x 7 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1974.77
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Chester D. Tripp in honor of William Mathewson Milliken on his 85th year
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1974, Images of the Mind, Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): "Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 105 Byzantine
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