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NM Ant 1921 :: lamp

Object description: Mould-made lamp. Carinated body. Sunken filling-hole area, surrounded by moulding with a row of egg-and darts depending from it. Area between filling-hole and nozzle decorated with a head of a bearded male figure seen en face. Semi-fine, pale brown fabric, fired grey in places, with fine mica. Dark grey slip.

Data elements
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Inventory number

NM Ant 1921

Serie nummer

4125

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Material

Terracotta; Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Terrakotta; Keramik

Acquisition

Bequest of Mrs. Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, Visby, 1934, to the National Museum, Stockholm.

Description

Mould-made lamp. Carinated body. Sunken filling-hole area, surrounded by moulding with a row of egg-and darts depending from it. Area between filling-hole and nozzle decorated with a head of a bearded male figure seen en face. Semi-fine, pale brown fabric, fired grey in places, with fine mica. Dark grey slip.

Period

Roman

Name - Acquired from

Benedicks-Bruce, Carolina

Description: Carolina Maria Benedicks-Bruce (28 October 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Swedish sculptor. After studies at the Academy of Arts in Sweden she went to France, at first to study and later to live and work at the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing where she met her husband William Blair Bruce. With him she returned to Sweden and together they created the artists estate Brucebo on Gotland, which was later established as a nature reserve. She also worked actively with the preservation of heritage buildings, women's right to vote and establishing the Swedish Women's Voluntary Defence Organization.
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org

Name - Owner