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拍品专文
The inscriptions consist of very slight variations on:
baraka kamila wa ni'ma (perfect blessing and grace)
The form of this lamp, with its long pointed trough spout dominated at its opening by the rising panel, is typical of Spanish lamps of the Umayyad period. One was sold in these Rooms, 11 April 2000 lot 262, while a number of others are known (five examples were recently exhibited in Paris: Les Andalousies de Damas à Cordoue, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2000, nos.96-100, pp.117-9). One of those lamps exhibited, now in the Museo Arqueológico, Jaen, (no.98, detail also shown on p.66) has the same high foot and, unusually, lion handle seen on the present lamp, but the lamp is otherwise plain. A further example of a lamp with a lion handle was published some time ago as being in the author's collection (Gomez-Moreno, Manuel: El Arte Español hasta los Almohades; Arte Mozarabe, Madrid, 1951, fig.392c, p.328). That example is considerably more decorated and therefore more like the present example, but still lacks the cover. The lion is also somewhat falling off the back of the lamp unlike the springy animal with head held high seen here.
In discussing the Jaen lion lamp in the Paris exhibition, Juan Zozoya dates it on the basis of the similarity of its shape to the Montefrio lamp in Granada (Gomez-Moreno, op.cit., fig 389), and thence by a dating of the script on the latter piece. He arrives at a date of the early 12th century which seems slightly late in comparison with the dating of the other pieces in the exhibition, and indeed the caption to the photograph of a detail on page 66 of the same publication dates it to the eleventh century. The present example shares the surface decoration with the Montefrio example and also the Gomez-Moreno lamp, particularly the former which has similar inscriptions on the spout and a similar band of bird roundels around the body. It is however to an incense burner of the same period that one must look for the cover of the present lamp. One in the Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid, has very similar pierced decoration, although there it is surmounted by a bird (Gomez Moreno, op.cit., fig.395a).
There are many similarities to various elements of the present lamp, all of which makes its attribution and dating completely secure. None of the comparitive material is however as complete as ours, and on none is the lion executed with the same conviction as is seen here.
baraka kamila wa ni'ma (perfect blessing and grace)
The form of this lamp, with its long pointed trough spout dominated at its opening by the rising panel, is typical of Spanish lamps of the Umayyad period. One was sold in these Rooms, 11 April 2000 lot 262, while a number of others are known (five examples were recently exhibited in Paris: Les Andalousies de Damas à Cordoue, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 2000, nos.96-100, pp.117-9). One of those lamps exhibited, now in the Museo Arqueológico, Jaen, (no.98, detail also shown on p.66) has the same high foot and, unusually, lion handle seen on the present lamp, but the lamp is otherwise plain. A further example of a lamp with a lion handle was published some time ago as being in the author's collection (Gomez-Moreno, Manuel: El Arte Español hasta los Almohades; Arte Mozarabe, Madrid, 1951, fig.392c, p.328). That example is considerably more decorated and therefore more like the present example, but still lacks the cover. The lion is also somewhat falling off the back of the lamp unlike the springy animal with head held high seen here.
In discussing the Jaen lion lamp in the Paris exhibition, Juan Zozoya dates it on the basis of the similarity of its shape to the Montefrio lamp in Granada (Gomez-Moreno, op.cit., fig 389), and thence by a dating of the script on the latter piece. He arrives at a date of the early 12th century which seems slightly late in comparison with the dating of the other pieces in the exhibition, and indeed the caption to the photograph of a detail on page 66 of the same publication dates it to the eleventh century. The present example shares the surface decoration with the Montefrio example and also the Gomez-Moreno lamp, particularly the former which has similar inscriptions on the spout and a similar band of bird roundels around the body. It is however to an incense burner of the same period that one must look for the cover of the present lamp. One in the Instituto de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid, has very similar pierced decoration, although there it is surmounted by a bird (Gomez Moreno, op.cit., fig.395a).
There are many similarities to various elements of the present lamp, all of which makes its attribution and dating completely secure. None of the comparitive material is however as complete as ours, and on none is the lion executed with the same conviction as is seen here.