AN UNUSUAL KHORASSAN BRONZE OIL LAMP with slightly flattened lobed spherical body, flat shoulder and stepped spreading foot, one lobe extruded into a pronounced part-covered trough spout widening into a heart-shaped mouth with flat everted rim, spout covering and part of the lobed flat shoulder engraved with an ogival lattice enclosing trefoil motifs, the hinged shallow recurved domed cover pierced with linked tendrils issuing trefoils around the ball knop, the simple ring handle with very pronounced vertical support for the cast pierced terminal in the form of a circular stem terminating in two lotus bud flowerheads flanking a simple geometric interlace with similar lotus bud motif, 12th century