2-721-281 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bronze lamp, c1500-1550, (1881). Etching of an oil lamp made in the workshop of Severo da Ravenna, in Padua or Ravenna in Italy, in the first half of the 16th century. The oil was contained in the satyr's head, whose mouth forms the burner; a hinged cover to the oil hole is on the crown. The stand is in the form of an eagle's claw. From "The South Kensington Museum", a book of engraved illustrations, with descriptions, of the works of art in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (formerly known as the South Kensington Museum). [Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London, 1881]