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1932.88.414

Pottery lamp of grey ware, heavily blackened. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/10/2016]

1932.88.414

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery lamp of grey ware, heavily blackened. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/10/2016]
Long description
Pottery lamp of grey ware, heavily blackened. Pointed oval form with flat bottom and short expanding sides to shoulder and with slightly convex sides to the top. Remnants of slightly curved knob attached at the rear of the lamp. The filling hole is arch shaped with a flat end, from which two ridges extend down the wick nozzle forming a channel. Within the channel in low relief are two sets of concentric circles, a six pointed star and a lozenge pattern. The sides of the lamp are decorated with three sections of relief adornment, starting at the back with horizontal palm leaf design, then a section of vertical lozenge patterning, and then another horizontal palm leaf which ends at the wick hole. [MOBB [OPS move] 26/10/2016]
Person
Field collector Bailey
PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1894
Date collected
By 1894
Acquisition information
Donated: 1932
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Decorated, Process Moulded, Process Coiled Handbuilt
Dimensions
Height: max 45 mm, Width: max 78 mm, Length: max 128 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1932.88.414 Other numbers: KS 98 [K S 98] KS 102 [K S 102]

Search terms: Lighting, Pottery, Religion, Lamp, Religious Object