Collection Highlights
Slant-front desk
Date:
1777-1794
Object Number:
1947.461
Medium:
Mahogany
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Oil lamp
Object Number:
1965.916b
Date:
1835-1860
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 3 7/8 in. ( 24.8 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
written: in ink on paper label affixed to base: "S"
Description:
Colorless, lead glass oil lamp; small, spherical font encircled with band of cut ovals; bobeche attaches to hollow, pressed columnar stem and trumpet-shaped base; pressed decoration consists of bands of diagonal lobes around top and bottom of column and around rim of base, ribs on column, and six stylized leaves radiate out from base of column.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
