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Candlestick
- Accession Number:AKM884
- Place:Eastern Iran
- Dimensions:Diameter 46.5 cm, height 35 cm
- Date:13th century
- Materials and Technique:Embossed and repoussé bronze
This candlestick is one of a group of related candlesticks in major museum collections that were made out of hammered brass in the late twelfth or early thirteenth centuries in Khorasan (present-day northeast Iran and Afghanistan). Although the candlesticks have variations in size and decorative details, they all have a wide band of hexagonal bosses flanked by repoussé animal friezes on the top and bottom, sometimes extending into the candlestick’s shoulder. The same style of low-relief sculptural lions protruding from a brass object is known from an ewer now in the National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, with an inscription linking it to eastern Iran and present-day Afghanistan.
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