Lamp (Oil Lamp)

Unknown American, American

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about 1850

Pewter

Overall: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm)

Base: 2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift from the collection of Ethel and Robert E. Asher, Class of 1931

M.991.7.7

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Furnishings: Lighting Device

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Exhibition History

American Pewter [A small case exhibition primarily of loans and promised gifts], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Septmeber 1985-Febraury 1986.

Publication History

Peter R. G. Horsby, Pewter of the Western World, Moreland, 1983, p. 336, fig. 1153.

Provenance

Cynthia Fehr; Robert E. Asher (1910-2008) and Ethel Watson Asher (1905-1987), Washington, D.C., 1976; given to present collection, 1991.

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