Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1899 :: lamp

Object description: Mould-made Vogelkopflampe. Fairly shallow body. Spatulate nozzle with slightly curved tip. Paraboloid discus with a framing groove. No air-hole. Between filling-hole area and nozzle are two addorsed birds´ heads. Moulded and pierced transverse handle. Flat, undefined base with the signature C.OPPI.RES incised on underside. Semi-fine, pale pinkish-brown fabric with fine mica. Thin, buff slip.

Data elements
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Inventory number

NM Ant 1899

Serie nummer

4074

Object

lamp

Object, Swedish

lampa

Country - Findspot

Italy : Europe

Geographic name, alternative

Central Italy.

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 Vogelkopflampe. Fairly shallow body. Spatulate nozzle with slightly curved tip. Paraboloid discus with a framing groove. No air-hole. Between filling-hole area and nozzle are two addorsed birds´ heads. Moulded and pierced transverse handle. Flat, undefined base with the signature C.OPPI.RES incised on underside. Semi-fine, pale pinkish-brown fabric with fine mica. Thin, buff slip.

Period

Roman

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

75-200 AD

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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