Collection Highlights
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Date:
1805
Object Number:
1867.306
Medium:
Oil on linen
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Oil lamp
Object Number:
INV.510
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 x 4 x 4 in. ( 25.4 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; spherical font on peg support joined by bobeche to candlestick-type base with downward tapering square stem molded with floral sprays and square trumpet-shaped base with canted corners and molded ram's heads.
Gallery Label:
Though stylistically it appears to date to the early nineteenth-century, the only published parallel to this lamp is French or Belgian and dates to the late-nineteenth or early-twentieth century.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
