Carlotta - the museum database

NM Ant 1919 :: lamp

Object description: Mould-made lamp with hollowed stand. Carinated body. Nozzle with rounded tip and a flat, heart-shaped area around the wick-hole. Plain filling-hole area defined by a raised rim. Slightly sloping shoulder decorated with row of impressed ovules depending from the rim. Pierced handle with a decorative ornament representing the external female genitalia. Semi-fine, very pale brown fabric. Thin reddish-brown slip.

Data elements
References (3)

Inventory number

NM Ant 1919

Serie nummer

4118

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 with hollowed stand. Carinated body. Nozzle with rounded tip and a flat, heart-shaped area around the wick-hole. Plain filling-hole area defined by a raised rim. Slightly sloping shoulder decorated with row of impressed ovules depending from the rim. Pierced handle with a decorative ornament representing the external female genitalia. Semi-fine, very pale brown fabric. Thin reddish-brown 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