Cleveland Museum of Art

Candlestick

Date

1250–1350

Medium

sheet brass inlaid with silver

Culture

Eastern Anatolia

Department

Islamic Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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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