Design for an Oil Lamp
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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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 through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-647
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and gray watercolor, graphite on light cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 21.2 cm (10 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)