Miniature Lamp
525-400 BCE
Description
Wheelmade lamp with relatively deep body, incurving walls, flat rim, and broad filling hole. Medium-sized, bridged, round nozzle at rim level. Small amount of charring visible around nozzle hole and edge of rim adjacent to nozzle. Low, flat base with string marks. Tool marks from finishing process visible on much of upper body. Buff-orange fabric with pale accretion over much of body. Heavily worn. Either self- or unslipped.
Dimensions
2.9 x 7 x 5.8 cm (1 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
Provenance
Information sheet in object file reads: "Received R. C. Winthrop 1869."
Related Artworks
View MoreMixed copper alloy
10th-13th centuryIslamicPlaster cast
20th centuryAmericanTerracotta
RomanTerracotta
RomanGlass
Unidentified centuryUnidentified cultureterracotta
4th century BCEGreekEnameled porcelain: porcelain with openwork elements and decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels
19th centuryChineseterracotta
6th century BCEGreekTerracotta
1st century CERomanTerracotta
Blue-and-white ware: molded porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" within a double square on the base; originally with metal mounts
18th centuryChineseTerracotta