Lamp, white jasper with a blue dip covering the exterior, in the form of a shallow bowl with rounded foot-rim and curving sides, to one side a high thick loop handle and to the other side a short rounded spout forming the holded for the wick, decorated with applied ornament in white relief with a border of leaves around the lip-rim and narrow beaded edging around the spout and handle, a heart-shaped scrolled line left white around the top of the spout.
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Creation/Production
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Place: Etruria, Staffordshire
Period: 18th century (late)
Acquisition
Gift, 2/7/1931
Given by Mrs M.C. Leach
Measurements
Height
(cm): 4.5
diam
(cm): 9
Width
(cm): 13
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
Wheel-thrown
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Assembled
Forming
Applied Art
Dipped
Decoration
Applied Art
Applied
Decoration
Applied Art