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1899.44.12.1

Pewter lamp. Saucer shape, undecorated except for a vertical, rectangular handle projecting vertically from inside the bowl. The centre of the exterior has a maker's mark stamped into the metal. The stand for this lamp is 1899.44.12 .2. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/06/2016]

1899.44.12.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pewter lamp. Saucer shape, undecorated except for a vertical, rectangular handle projecting vertically from inside the bowl. The centre of the exterior has a maker's mark stamped into the metal. The stand for this lamp is 1899.44.12 .2. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/06/2016]
Cultural groups
Chinese
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1899
Date collected
1899
Acquisition information
Donated: 1899
Materials and processes
Material Pewter Metal, Process Impressed
Dimensions
Diameter: max 93 mm, Height: max 260 mm total, Height: max 51 mm, Width: max 132 mm total, Length: max 130 mm total
Object numbers
Accession number: 1899.44.12.1 Other numbers: F 37
Research and responses

Collected during the Skeat expedition, 1899. Members of this expedition (the main part of which was to the Malay peninsula), led by Walter William Skeat, included Thomas Nelson Annandale as junior zoologist (it was during this first expedition to the Malay peninsula that Annandale became interested in ethnology), R. Evans as senior zoologist, D. C. Gwynne Vaughn as botanist, and Skeat as ethnologist. Accounts of this expedition were published by Annandale in 'The Siamese Malay States', in Scottish Geographical Magazine, September 1900. See also Skeat, 'Reminiscences of the Cambridge University Expedition to the North-Eastern Malay States, 1899-1900', Journal of the Malay Branch of the Royal Anthropological Society XXVI, 4, 1953, pp. 9-147; Malay Magic, 1900; and Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, 1906. [SHD 18/5/2001]

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