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NM Ant 1877 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade lamp; circular body with convex profile. Rounded nozzle; no handle. Between the narrow shoulder and the discus there is a sloping, deep grove and a moulded rim. Concave undecorated discus with asymmetrically located opening and air-hole. The lamp stands on a base-ring, within which is a name: C.NAE . Pale-yellow clay, dark-brown slip.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1877

Serie nummer

3495

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

Mouldmade lamp; circular body with convex profile. Rounded nozzle; no handle. Between the narrow shoulder and the discus there is a sloping, deep grove and a moulded rim. Concave undecorated discus with asymmetrically located opening and air-hole. The lamp stands on a base-ring, within which is a name: C.NAE . Pale-yellow clay, dark-brown slip.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

0-100 AD

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

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