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lamp, oil

human history
  • Description

    lamp, oil. The object is an oil lamp with a circular oil chamber. The chamber appears to have been slightly squashed prior to firing. The lamp has a small nozzle with a small filling hole in the centre of a very concave discus. There are four dogs leaping around the plain inner discus. The wick hole is large and the shoulder has a series of small raised circles. The fabric is dark brown almost black.

  • Accession Number
    1943.84
  • Accession Date
    1943
  • Other Id

    26944.4 (ethnology)

  • Department
lamp, oil, 1943.84, 26944.4, Photographed by Richard Ng,… … Read more

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