Lighting DevicesGreek5th century BCE
Lamp
500-400 BCE
Description
Wheelmade lamp with shallow body, incurving walls, curved rim, and large filling hole. Band handle at rear slopes slightly upward from the horizontal. Short, rounded, bridged nozzle. Low, flat, broad base. Pale orange, well-levigated fabric with glossy, black slip, on interior and exterior. Slip is chipped in large patches on body. Base is self- or unslipped.
Dimensions
2.45 x 11.35 x 8.05 cm (15/16 x 4 7/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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