# The Cadogan Lamp [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RICCIO, Andrea]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Bronze, 13 x 21 x 6 cm ## Commentary This bronze oil lamp, the so-called 'Cadogan Lamp' is in the form of an ancient galley, on the sides of which are groups of sea gods and medallions and on the cover is a statuette of a cupid mounted on a dolphin. Many oil lamps have decoration that carries symbolic meaning and is now difficult to interpret. Here one side shows the Fall of Ignorant Humanity, in the form of a fat woman flanked by two females. The other, with a youth blowing a horn into a billowing sail, represents the motto 'make haste slowly'. Usually described as a galley, this ship is in fact a fantastical vessel. ## Related artworks - [Arion]() - [Della Torre Monument]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#1]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#2]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#2]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#3]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#4]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#5]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#6]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#7]() - [Della Torre Monument: Relief \#8]() - [Finding of the Cross]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()