DepartmentAsia

Lamp, oil

NameLamp, oil

Artist Artist Not Recorded

Dateca 1950

Place madeINDIA, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA

Mediummetal

Dimensions3 7/16 × 6 5/16 × 1 9/16 in. (8.7 × 16 × 4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Miss Hester Gassett, A.1989.47.28

Object numberA.1989.47.28

Collections

Asia

DescriptionCast brass with engraved round designs on top; polished. Lamp has round base, narrow neck, lgarge oil containrer section and across top is a flat abstract figure of a bird with depression for burning oil at one end, as if bird's pointed head, and abstracted tail feathers. Small ladle attached by link chain to side of oil bowl top opening.