Pottery lamp of grey ware with brown slip. [MOBB [OPS move] 23/11/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery lamp of grey ware with brown slip. [MOBB [OPS move] 23/11/2016]
Long description: Pottery lamp of grey ware with brown slip. Circular bowl shaped saucer lamp with flat bottom, expanded ridge below the plain rim, and projecting wick channel and lip. The expanded ridge is decorated with stamped palm branches and spoked wheels with crosses at their centres. [MOBB [OPS move] 23/11/2016]
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Pakistan
Asia > Southern Asia > Pakistan; Kashmir
Person: Field collector Alfred Crowdy Lovett; PRM source Henry Balfour
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1893
Date collected: By 1893
Acquisition information: Donated: 1932
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Decorated, Process Slipped, Process Stamped, Process Coiled Handbuilt, Process Thrown
Dimensions: Height: max 33 mm, Width: max 75 mm, Length: max 93 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.88.630 Other numbers: FL 34 [F L 34]
Research and responses: This could be Alfred Crowdy Lovett, see biographies [AP 26/2/2002]

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