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
Lamp on a stand , 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
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
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
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 glass oil lamps suspended on chains in The Life of St. Denis , c. 1250; also BNF NAF 1098, fol. 55v
Lamp stand, 14th century Egypt or Syria (V&A 912-1884 )
Pendant lamp above Bruder Eberhard von Sax , the Manesse Codex (Heidelberg Universitäts-Bibliothek 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
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 rerum , 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
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
Detail from The Adoration of the Magi , c. 1485-1495
Brass lamp with a fantastical creature, 15th-16th century (V&A 578-1872 )
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 Rescue of the child drowned in a bathtub , 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
Bronze lamp in the form of a grotesque monster, 16th century (V&A 4409-1857 )
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 at the loom , late 16th century
The Last Supper by Otto van Veen, 1592
Lamp with a reaching figure, designed by Barthélémy Prieur, c. 1600