Electrified Ale Bottle Lamp

Item Information

Title:
Electrified Ale Bottle Lamp
Description:
Narrow cylindrical body with thick base, ringed neck and rounded shoulders with thick finger hold; there is an impressed mark at shoulders (see above) fitted as a lamp.
Date:
1820–1840
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
glazing (coating process)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
lamps (lighting devices)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Stoneware
Salt-Glazed
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
8 1/2 in. x 4 3/5 in. (H x D)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/2616
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.834
Identifier:
2616