- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery lamp of redware with mica slipped red. [MOBB [OPS move] 4/10/2016]
- Long description
- Pottery lamp of redware with mica slipped red. Ovoid or tear drop shape with rounded bottom and expanding sides. The interior, which is blackened, is decorated with a ladder band running around the sides. The bottom of the interior is outlined with two raised bands, and the centre was decorated seven raised dots around a central raised dot. [MOBB [OPS move] 4/10/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Kashmir
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1931
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Material Mica Stone, Process Decorated, Process Slipped, Process Thrown, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Width: max 57 mm, Length: max 77 mm, Height: max 19 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1931.55.3 Other numbers: FO 8 [F O 8]
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