Design for an Oil Lamp.
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1855
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The body of the lamp is a blue porcelain vase with a central field in the form of an oval containg a bust-length portrait of a woman. The portrait is enclosed in a bronze frame, flanked by garlands which are tied to the bronze handle mounts. Bronze base and fixture above holding a glass globe (partly shown.) At lower center: No. 518. Lampe "Cares" pate tendre and Bronze. haut. 74c largeur 40c." (inscribed.)
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-206-9
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pencil, brush and ink, watercolor, tempera colors on tracing paper, tipped down.
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 43.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.)