Design for the Base of 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 depicting a young girl seated in a landscape, enclosed by a gold foliated frame. Mounted on a rocaille bronze base, flanked by handles with peacocks, surmounted by a fixture intended to hold a glass globe.
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: 1953-206-8
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on cream tracing paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 41.4 x 27.8 cm (16 5/16 x 10 15/16 in.)