- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Brass standing lamp with 4 wick-spouts. [MOBB [OPS move] 29/3/2017]
- Long description
- Brass standing lamp with 4 wick-spouts. Circular, bowl shaped saucer lamp with four projecting wick nozzles with central cylindrical pillar topped with curved loop. The lamp is sat atop a slightly expanded and horizontally ridged pillar which sits in a shallow drip dish. The whole is sat upon a circular foot. [MOBB [OPS move] 29/3/2017]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Tamil
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1904
- Date collected
- By 1904
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1904
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 165 mm, Height: max 160 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1904.10.1
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