One of a pair of electrified argand lamps with urn-shaped font, arm with cylindrical burner, shaft with square base. Tole style red and gold painted pressed tinned white metal. Custom shade.
Argand lamps
pressing
white metal
Lamp
Lamp, Electric
Lamp, Electric
Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),
Unknown
19 1/2 x 5 x 8 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann
1942.1689.1
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