1920.44.51: Lamp
Lighting Devices
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.44.51
- Title
- Lamp
- Classification
- Lighting Devices
- Work Type
- lighting device
- Date
- 500-400 BCE
- Period
- Classical period
- Culture
- Greek
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/292891
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Terracotta
- Technique
- Wheel-made
- Dimensions
- 2.45 x 11.35 x 8.05 cm (15/16 x 4 7/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920.
Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Misses Norton
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.44.51
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
-
Wheelmade lamp with shallow body, incurving walls, curved rim, and large filling hole. Band handle at rear slopes slightly upward from the horizontal. Short, rounded, bridged nozzle. Low, flat, broad base.
Pale orange, well-levigated fabric with glossy, black slip, on interior and exterior. Slip is chipped in large patches on body. Base is self- or unslipped.
Verification Level
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