- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Circular brass lamp on pedestal foot with suspension chain and hook. Seven open wick nozzles on an open topped lamp set atop a cylindrical stand with an expanded circular drip pan and foot. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/4/2017]
- Long description
- Description taken from Conservation Card by Robert Pearce - Metal lamp. Lamp with space for seven wicks. (Robert Pearce 27/04/00) [LKG 30/01/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1881
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1881
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Jointed, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Height: max 445 mm, Width: max 93 mm, Length: max 93 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.116.99 Other numbers: P 11 PR no.: 490/ 12191
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