- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of grey ware slipped black. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/10/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of grey ware slipped black. Egg shaped lamp on three feet with remnants of vertical handle attached on top of the back of the lamp. The front third of the top half of the egg is open with a small hole just behind this opening. [MOBB [OPS move] 14/10/2016]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1898
- Date collected
- 1898
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1932
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Slipped, Process Moulded, Process Thrown, Process Handbuilt
- Dimensions
- Height: max 65 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 58 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1932.88.425 Other numbers: H 100 A
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