Oil Lamp in the Form of a Sphinx

sixteenth century16th Centuryfunctional objectsculpture

Date

Cast c. 1525

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

14.6 × 13.3 cm (5 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Richard T. Crane Fund

Also notable

Works in the same vein

Door Boss: Bust of a Satyress

Northern Italian

Allegorical Figure

Attributed to Bartolomeo Ammanati (Italian, 1511–1592)

The Assumption of the Virgin

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614)