Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical rectangle. Design for an oil-burning lamp. The lamp is a covered bowl, standing upon a pedestal. A band surrounds its upper part, showing three ram heads fastened to it, above which the fires burn. A half-circular eyeshade is fastened by an arch to a pomegranate on top of the bowl. The upper part of the pedestal is shaped like the cover of a sarcophagus, with heads at the corners. In the panel of the front of the pedestal are two butterflies in a wreath. At the upper right edge are remnants of a framing ink line.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- early 19th century
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on light cream paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 × 21.2 cm (10 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
- Type
- lighting
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
