The Rothschild Lamp is a 16th-century bronze oil lamp. Made by Italian gold and metal-smith

Andrea Riccio Andrea Riccio (1532) was an Italian sculptor and occasional architect, whose real name was Andrea Briosco, but is usually known by his sobriquet meaning "curly"; he is also known as Il Riccio and Andrea Crispus ("curly" in Latin). He is mainly k ...

, the lamp was a longtime possession of the

Rothschild family The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of F ...

. The lamp was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009, and remains in the museum's collection.

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{{Reflist Individual lamps Metalwork in the Metropolitan Museum of Art