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Drawing, Design for the Base of an Oil Lamp
This is a Drawing. It is dated ca. 1855 and we acquired it in 1953. Its medium is brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on cream tracing paper, lined. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Nineteenth-century objects frequently incorporated more than one style. This lamp design echoes eighteenth-century French gilt-bronze mounted Japanese and French porcelains. However, its urn shape, peacock handles, and suspended rose garland reflect neoclassical ornament favored during the Second Empire.
It is credited Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund.
Its dimensions are
41.4 x 27.8 cm (16 5/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed at lower left, Vase porcelaine monture rocaille / á Lampe Carcel; lower center: No 189; lower right: hauteur 72c
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for the Base of an Oil Lamp; France; brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on cream tracing paper, lined; 41.4 x 27.8 cm (16 5/16 x 10 15/16 in.); Museum purchase from Pauline Riggs Noyes Fund; 1953-206-8
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.
