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Production: unidentified Langnau pottery
Buff earthenware, marbled with white and dark brown clay over a red slip, and coated with yellow lead-glaze. the lamp has a spreading circular base, rising into a short stem at the top of which is a cup-shaped receptacle pinched into a lip in front, and having inside it a nozzle open along the top for a wick; a loop handle is attached to the opposite side, and curves downwards to meet a flat projection around the stem.
History note: Madame Jasselin, Grand rue 37, Bern from whom bought for 12 francs on 14 August 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1800
CE
-
1830
CE
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
composed of
slip
Accession number: C.1892-1928
Primary reference Number: 72819
Old object number: 3677
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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