See also the lamp suspenders at the UK Detector Finds Database.
- Glass hanging lamp, 4th century
- Lamp with a horse's head, made in Byzantium or Syria in the late 4th century
- Brass hanging lamp with griffin-head handle, Byzantium, 5th-6th century
- Byzantine oil lamps of the 5th and 6th centuries
- Lamp on a stand, Byzantium, 6th century
- Votive polycandelon, Byzantium, 6th century
- Byzantine Polycandelon of the 6th-8th centuries
- Oil lamp (glass), 8th-9th century
- Steatite hanging lamp found at Jarlshof, c. 9th-11th century
- Glazed terracotta oil lamp of an Arab-Norman type, found in Salerno, 11th century
- Oil lamp from the Serçe Limani shipwreck, 1020s
- Oil lamp from Appeville-Annebault, 11th century
- Early medieval sand and shell-tempered ware lamps, found in London, c. 1001-1150: hanging lamp and pedestal lamp
- Copper-alloy hanging lamp found in London, 12th century
- Norman stone lamp, carved in Beer stone from South Devon, found in a 12th century rubbish pit in Exeter
- Oil lamp from the second half of the 12th century, found at the manorial residence of Rubercy
- South Hertfordshire-type greyware spike or cresset lamps, found in London, c. 1170-1350: MoL 68.11/9 and MoL A27986
- Steatite lamp found at Jarlshof, late 12th - early 13th century
- Bronze oil lamp in the shape of a partridge, Khorasan, 12th-13th century
- Polycandelon, Iran, 12th-13th century
- Bronze bird-shaped lamp, Rhine, 12th-14th century
- Steatite hanging lamp found in Shetland, 13th century
- Ceramic lamp, 13th century
- Ceramic lamp found in a cesspit behind a house in London, 13th century
- Pendant lamps in the Maciejowski Bible (PML M.638), c. 1250:
Hannah questioned by Eli (fol. 19v);
Samuel brought to Eli (fol. 20r);
The fall of Dagon (fol. 21r);
Samuel sacrifices a lamb (fol. 22r);
Destruction of Baal (fol. 22r)
- Pendant glass oil lamps suspended on chains in The Life of St. Denis, c. 1250; also BNF NAF 1098, fol. 55v
- Compline, a book of hours (British Library Egerton 1151, fol. 57v), third quarter of the 13th century
- Elkanah with Hannah and Peninnah at an altar, a bible (PML M.436, fol. 90v), c. 1287-1300
- Pendant (glass?) lamps above some chanting monks in the Windmill Psalter (PML M.102, fol. 100r), late 13th century
- Hanging lamp in the Verification of the Stigmata by Giotto, 1300
- Benedict of Montecassino at prayer, Vita et miraculae sancti Benedicti (PML M.55, fol. 10v), early 14th century
- Lamp stand, 14th century Egypt or Syria
- Pendant lamp above Bruder Eberhard von Sax, the Manesse Codex (UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 848, fol. 48v), c. 1305-1340
- Nativity, Lives of the Saints (BNF Fr. 185, fol. 3), second quarter of the 14th century
- Pendant glass oil lamp over Naomi mourning her sons, Speculum Humanae Salvationis (ÖNB s.n. 2612, fol. 29r), c. 1330-1340
- The author puts on his hose, Le roman de la rose (Selden Supra 57, fol. 1r), 1348
- Parable of the lost coin (fol. 29v) and parable of the wise virgins and foolish virgins (fol. 34v), Speculum humanae salvationis (BNF Arsenal 593), second half of the 14th century
- Oil lamp, 14th-15th century
Lampas is a glasen vessel, þynne and brotil and smeþe and clere, open & rounde aboue, narow and streyte byneþe, and euelong, and serueþ to norische fuyre & light and haþ þe name of lambo, to likke, for it semeþ it likke þe oyle, and so euerich þat 3iueþ aboue forþ light may be y-cleped lampas.
Trevisa's translation of De proprietatibus erum, British Library Add. 27944 |
- Cepperello's prayers (fol. 11),
Martellino at the tomb of St. Arrigo (fol. 34),
Agidulf cuts the culprit's hair (fol. 94v),
Puccio di Rineri deceived by Felice (fol. 101),
Abilech and Rustico pray (fol. 126v),
Lisabetta's dream (fol. 148),
Girolamo Sighieri scorned by Salvestra (fol. 155v),
Isabetta and her lover (fol. 263v),
Pinuccio tricks the landlord (fol. 269v),
Gianni di Barolo tricks Pietro (fol. 275)
The Decameron (BNF Italien 63), 1427
- A lamp hanging from a peg on a wall from St. Martin sharing his cloak, c. 1435-1445
- Lamp with a handle, 15th century
- Hanging bronze lamp with an inscription, 15th century
- Presentation of Christ in the Temple by Stefan Lochner, 1447
- Detail of a pendant lamp from the Retable of Boulbon, c. 1457
- St. Lucy, painted in Venice c. 1460
- The vision of St. Martha (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 344v) and St. Laumer tormented by the devil (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 437v), Speculum historiale, 1463
- Amigo saves Cifar (fol. 47v) and Grima at prayer (fol. 68), The Knight Cifar (BNF Espagnol 36), fourth quarter of the 15th century
- The wise and foolish virgins, Vita Christi (PML M.894, fol. 233v), c. 1485
- Detail from The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1485-1495
- Brass lamp with a fantastical creature, 15th-16th century
- Hanging lamp (cesendello) in enameled and gilt glass with a scene from the Annunciation, Venice, late 15th-early 16th century
- Detail from St. Florian and St. Vitus, c. 1490-1500
- Ceramic oil lamp, made in Petit-Rechain c. 1491-1500
- Detail from Christ Crowned with Thorns by Jörg Breu the Elder, 1501
- Detail from Rescue of the child drowned in a batht b, 1513
Designs by Andrea Briosco (aka Andrea Riccio), d. 1532
- St. Vitus, c. 1505-1515
- Detail from a portrait of a man by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1506-1510
- A polycandelion-like chandelier in a scene from the life of St. Wolfgang, c. 1515-1520
- St. Matthew and the Angel by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, c. 1534
- Drawing of a lamp with spouts formed by dolphin heads, supported by boy tritons and terminating in an entwined base by Giulio Romano
- Bronze lamp in the form of a grotesque monster, 16th century
- Lamp in the form of a grotesque with a man's head, 16th century
Designs by Severo da Ravenna, d. 1543
- Stoneware double-lamp made in Raeren, 16th century
- Stoneware double-lamp made in Raeren, c. 1550-1570
- Stoneware double-lamp made in Raeren, c. 1560-1580
- Hanging copper lamp made in the 16th century
- Hanging copper lamp made in the 16th century
- Hanging iron lamp made in the 16th century
- Penelope by Leandro Bassano, c. 1575-1585
- The Last Supper by Otto van Veen, 1592
- Taddeo Zuccaro in the house of Giovanni Pietro Calabrese by Federico Zuccaro, c. 1595; interesting small lamp by the desk of the seated man at the left (more visible in this later copy)
- Lamp with a reaching figure, designed by Barthélémy Prieur, c. 1600
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