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Pitt Rivers Museum

1967.29.45

Pottery lamp of buff ware slipped red and black. Circular body with a slightly depressed top with an off-centre filling hole. The projecting wick hole is broken and missing. There is an image in relief on the top depicting a figure holding a shield, wearing a helmet and wearing a gown (?Athena). [AB [OPS Move] 8/9/2016]


1967.29.45

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery lamp of buff ware slipped red and black. Circular body with a slightly depressed top with an off-centre filling hole. The projecting wick hole is broken and missing. There is an image in relief on the top depicting a figure holding a shield, wearing a helmet and wearing a gown (?Athena). [AB [OPS Move] 8/9/2016]
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Mercy Watson
PRM source Ipswich Museum
PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1887
Date collected
1885-1887
Acquisition information
Donated: 1967
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Slipped, Process Moulded, Process Coiled
Dimensions
Length: max 80 mm, Width: max 65 mm, Height: max 20 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1967.29.45

Search terms: Lighting, Vessel, Pottery, Lamp