Lamp (Oil Lamp)
Unknown American, American
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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