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1932.88.359

Pottery lamp of red ware with remnants of white slip. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/10/2016]

1932.88.359

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery lamp of red ware with remnants of white slip. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/10/2016]
Long description
Pottery lamp of red ware with remnants of white slip. Pear shaped lamp; pointed body with flat bottom, expanding sides to shoulder and slightly convex sides over the body and expanded or slightly axe-shaped wick nozzle. The central filling hole has a raised rim surrounded by a channel which is also the front part of the triangular raised handle behind it. The rest of the body is decorated with fine, close radiating vertical lines. The wick nozzle has a channel formed by two sets of raised lines running down the length of it with a raised boss within a circle on the top. [MOBB [OPS move] 18/10/2016]
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1902
Date collected
By 1902
Acquisition information
Donated: 1932
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Coiled Handbuilt, Process Moulded, Process Slipped
Dimensions
Height: max 29 mm, Width: max 52 mm, Length: max 82 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1932.88.359 Other numbers: KS 104 [K S 104]
Research and responses

It is not possible to tell from the information which Lawrence is referred to as the possible collector of this object. Both A.W. and G.F. Lawrence were responsible for donating objects from this region to the Pitt Rivers Museum. [MO'B 5/2/2001]

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