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NM Ant 1874 :: lamp

Object description: Mouldmade lamp, pointed oval in plan with a flat shoulder a moulded rim and a sunken discus, with a central filling-hole. There is a groove between the rim and the shoulder and a small channel pointing from the discus to the wick-hole. A short groove crossing that on half-ways. No handle. Undefined, flat base with the name, PVP. RED CLAY AND SLIP.

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Inventory number

NM Ant 1874

Serie nummer

3508

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, pointed oval in plan with a flat shoulder a moulded rim and a sunken discus, with a central filling-hole. There is a groove between the rim and the shoulder and a small channel pointing from the discus to the wick-hole. A short groove crossing that on half-ways. No handle. Undefined, flat base with the name, PVP. RED CLAY AND SLIP.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

75-125 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

Name - Owner