- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of pink or yellow ware. Pear shaped lamp with circular body and rounded wick nozzle/ wick hole. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/10/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of pink or yellow ware. Pear shaped lamp with circular body and rounded wick nozzle/ wick hole. Flat bottom with expanding sides to convex sides with small pyramidal stump handle. The body is decorated with Maltese crosses (four raised triangles organised in a cross shape with X's separating each triangle and a circle at the centre of each). There is a raised circle on the wick nozzle. The wick hole is blackened. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/10/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Date
- Date collected
- By 1909
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1952
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Decorated, Process Coiled Handbuilt, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 56 mm, Length: max 73 mm, Height: max 27 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1952.1.6 Other numbers: KS 123 [K S 123] 1697
- Research and responses
Selah Merrill was the only US Consul in Jerusalem with that surname, it is not known why the initial is wrong, see biographies [AP 13/08/2009]
1952.1.6
Pottery lamp of pink or yellow ware. Pear shaped lamp with circular body and rounded wick nozzle/ wick hole. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/10/2016]
1952.1.6
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