DepartmentAsia
Lamp, oil
NameLamp, oil
Artist
Artist unrecorded
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
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.Artist unrecorded
1800