TWO MOULDED EARLY ISLAMIC POTTERY OIL LAMPS
Possibly Syria or Iraq, 8th - 10th century

Comprising a monochrome brown-glazed oil lamp with alternating heart-shaped motifs, and an unglazed oil lamp with Arabic Kufic inscriptions reading the name of Allah, each of typical compressed drop-like shape, with a circular opening at the top and an elongated rectangular spout on one side, on the opposite side the protruding terminal of a once-present handle, now missing, the largest 10.5cm x 7.5cm.