Altar lamp
date: label: Date
content: 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Prefericulum shaped, and suspended by four chains from an inverted bowl. The chains return, and support a round ring which hangs, centered to the main body of the lamp and about ten inches above it. The main body of the lamp is unadorned save for two fillets, a rolled, splayed rim and a ring which is attached to the lowermost point of the lamp. The inverted bowl is decorated by a torus and surmounted by a ring. Four handles in wrought scroll shapes act as brackets for the four suspension chains. The links of the chains are wrought in forms of bucklers, Maltese crosses (eight-point crosses), clefs, rampant lions, each connected by small eight-shaped links.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-85-1
objectType: label: Type
content: lighting
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Altar lamp
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brass
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 78 x 40 cm (30 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.)