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Lamp
Lamp, tin-plate, in the shape of a Roman lamp, with high circular foot, boat-shaped body with to the centre of the top a wide tapering cylindrical neck with an aperture at the top; covered all over with a black japan and decorated in gillt with to either end of the body a mask of a male head surrounded by a border of stylized leaves, a stylized floral border around the neck, a further border of stylied leaves around the lower body and a gilt band around the foot. At some point the lamp has been wired for electricity with a metal light-bulb fitting in the aperture at the top and a long cord terminating in a plug issuing from the top of the foot.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 50236
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 19th century
Acquisition
Bequest, 8/6/1955
Measurements
Height
(cm): 38.7
Length
(cm): 60
Height
(cm): 28.8
Height
(in): 15
Length
(in): 23
Width
(in): 11
Techniques
cut
decoration
Applied Art
welded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
japanned
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-plate
Location
In store
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