- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Brass folding lantern. [MOBB [OPS move] 29/3/2017]
- Long description
- Brass folding lantern. Rectangular prism in shape with rectangular apertures for talc windows (which are missing). Candle socket present within. Each side is topped with an arched section which has impressed crescent lines adorning it. This is above a line of short vertical perforations. The back side of the lantern has a twisted metal handle and the side itself also has impressed decoration. The top is perforated and hinged to fold inwards when collapsed. The bottom is similar, but instead of perforations it holds a candle socket. [MOBB [OPS move] 29/3/2017]
- Cultural groups
- French
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1879
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1879
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Jointed, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Height: max 122 mm, Depth: max 49 mm, Width: max 74 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.116.74 Other numbers: YF 2 [Y F 2] PR no.: [? 15/ 9764] 16/ 9764
- Research and responses
Note that according to the logic of the order of the green book entries this object should be numbered 16/ 9764 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
Search terms: Lighting, Lamp, Lampshade, Candlestick
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